by Professor Peter Barry
This session is about ‘extreme’ forms of poetry – poems consisting of a single word, or even a single letter or typographical fragment; poems which are wordless, or merely a gesture towards the space of their own absence; and poems which exist in perpetual kinaesthetic suspension. These are the provinces of the land of Asemia, ‘a country difficult to find’, from which no traveller emerges unchanged. We can take you there. But we cannot guarantee to bring you safely back.
Biography:
Biography:
Peter Barry is Professor of English at Aberystwyth University. His books include Beginning Theory, Contemporary British Poetry and the City, English in Practice, Poetry Wars, Literature in Contexts, and Enjoying Poetry. He also has a secret life in post-textual poetries.
