The Writing Experiment by Hazel Smith

disorientated. Alternatively, write a poem which incorporates, and moves between, several voices. The dissident lyric One of the ...

same time, deals with some difficult topics, such as the way disabled people are named (and denigrated) as ‘spastic’ or ‘cripple ...

you, instead, to use contemporary imagery: it may, for example, be urban, technological or media-based, and/or involve some icon ...

collective of left-wing, intellectual poets who formed what is sometimes called a ‘postmodern avant-garde’ (the avant-garde was ...

The Language Poets were partly reacting against certain aspects of the free-verse tradition, and the way language in such poems ...

(Kristeva 1986, pp. 89–136), suggests that linguistic experimentation is a way that writing recaptures what she terms as the sem ...

Metaphor meets metonymy Linguistically experimental poetry tends to react against the hegemony of metaphor in mainstream poetry, ...

metonymy exist in, and are dependent on each other, is also discussed at length in Hyperscapes in the Poetry of Frank O’Hara: Di ...

Example 8.10 Amid ships, workmen sprawl like functions on a still graph, absorbing late morning like time- lapse prescriptions.. ...

world is made up so (Adam didn’t so much name as delineate). Every poem’s got a prosodic lining, some of which will unzip for su ...

procedures such as the palindrome (a text which can be read backwards) or antonymy (replacing elements of a text with their gram ...

writers often mediate between English grammar and their own version of it: this kind of grammatical freedom can be seen in the p ...

be equivalent to the next one. Words that do not seem to belong to each other are nevertheless grouped together, as, for example ...

The first line of the poem seems to suggest that cranberries overran logan- berries. But the syntax (the word order and the way ...

Take three different poems you are writing and intercut between them to produce discontinuities. Write down twenty independent ...

SWIFT PULLERY .TWAIL, HOYA METHODS: SAXA ANGLAISE SKEWERED SKULL INULA. ‘A Lesson from the Cockerel’ (O’Sullivan 1996a, p. 74) T ...

order, like typos in a hurriedly written email. Letters are added to or sub- tracted from words, sometimes implying additional m ...

182 The Writing Experiment Break up words and put the syllables back together in a different way. Add prefixes and suffixes to ...

See also Example 8.19 (p. 188) ‘Jouissance’ by student Ben Garcia, which combines visual experiments with syntactical experiment ...

184 The Writing Experiment not combine to form an overall narrative or exposition. Nevertheless, the sentences in any particular ...