Contemporary Poetry

contents vii

Travelogue from the Regional to the Global: Robert

Minhinnick and Lorna Goodison 154

Ecopoetics and the Future 157

Apocalyptic Landscapes: John Kinsella 159

Conclusion: Juliana Spahr’s Ecopoetics and Ideas of

Connection 161

Chapter 5 Dialects, Idiolects and Multilingual Poetries 171

Global Poetry or, English as a Global

Language 171

Dialect and Phonetic Poetry: Tony Harrison, Tom

Leonard and Liz Lochhead 173

The ‘big one, better tongue’: Jackie Kay 179

From Orality to Text: Ethnopoetics in Simon Ortiz and

Joy Harjo’s Poetry 181

Bilingualism and Translation in Poetry 184

‘My glossolalia shall be my passport’: Gwyneth Lewis 185

Immigration and Linguistic Difference: Li-Young Lee 189

Interlingual Poetics: Lorna Dee Cervantes 192

Idiolects or Ideolectical Poetries 195

Linguistic Cross-fertilisation: Tusiata Avia 198

Conclusion: Daljit Nagra 199

Conclusion 207

What is Electronic Writing? 208

Content-specifi c Electronic Writing: John Cayley, Jenny

Weight, Ingrid Ankerson and Megan Sapnar, Reiner

Strasser and M.D. Coverley 210

Electronic Experimentation and Language: Peter Finch

and Trevor Joyce 214

Poet’s Playground: ‘Flarf’ Poetry 217

Documentation and Poetry: Mark Nowak’s Coal

Mountain Elementary 219

Textured Information: Joshua Clover and Claudia Rankine 223

Disseminating Poetry 225

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