The Writing Experiment by Hazel Smith

essays about poetics as well as writing poetry, and it became inevitable that sometimes they would fuse the two together. Such a ...

more overt. The use of the first person can be extensive and may be used as a way of breaking out of the more depersonalised ess ...

In other types of fictocritical writing there may be an alternation or negotiation between creative writing and academic discour ...

Example 9.8 vampire vampires and strange creatures walk everywhere. i used not to notice them. but once you have seen one you se ...

i just want to speak. i want to tell you. how it happened. i didn’t know how to tell you. i didn’t know how to step out of that ...

short narratives in response to it.Also interject quotations from, and/or passages about, theoretical issues. If possible do not ...

Bernstein, C. 1992, ‘Artifice of Absorption’, A Poetics, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, pp. 9–89. Brewster, ...

212 chapter ten Tongues, talk and technologies This chapter explores writing for performance, and encourages you to increase the ...

Tongues, talk and technologies 213 The degree to which any piece takes on the challenges of performance will vary enormously. Fo ...

gender or ethnicity, will have an effect on the words spoken, though you may also wish to find ways of inverting or transforming ...

which often involve linguistic experimentation, and extreme uses of the voice, to work which has strong connections with hip hop ...

On The Writing Experiment website you will find two examples of such performances by Taylor Mali and Scott Woods. They are both ...

beginning of the poem, and on the word ‘escape’ right at the end. Volume, speed and dynamic come together to create long phrases ...

Write a performance poem which uses your voice to either emphasise or question your own cultural background, e.g. with regard t ...

mixing-editing software which is available free on the Internet. The sound section of the UbuWeb website (UbuWeb Ongoing) is ver ...

beyond the normal parameters of the poetry reading. To hear sophisti- cated manipulation of the voice, listen to Trevor Wishart ...

or rhythm. When a word is sampled it can be chopped up, played backwards or repeated in a loop. As a result a word can be transf ...

many exciting examples which include Celtic mouth music and Inuit throat music (UbuWeb Ongoing). MIXING THE MEDIA Performance ca ...

desired, at irregular angles. If video or computer are used, the words can move around the screen. Create a text and combine it ...

Out of Words’ and she performed a very rhythmic poem consisting entirely of clichéd similes while she worked out on a treadmill. ...