Poetry Nz 26

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ISBN: POETNZ26
Title: Poetry Nz 26
Author: POETRY NEW ZEALAND

If poetry is contemporary at all, it’s in the way philosophy, architecture, science, mathematics, law, political systems, music and art are contemporary. It examines what’s been done before, reflects on the imaginative and creative present, and looks towards the future. ‘Isms’ of the past – classicism, romanticism, vorticism, Dadaism, modernism – have attempted, and to varying degrees as is presently the case with postmodernism and ‘language’ writing, have succeeded in doing exactly this. Currently though, poetry seems to be in a state of confusion.

Strangely and to a large degree, this confusion appears to have been brought about by that most immediate and universal of communicative developments – the internet. We could have hoped it would have been otherwise, that a medium with the capacity to by-pass the traditional means of publishing poetry would have universalised public interest in it and enhanced its quality. While not quite universalising public interest it is, however, providing a wide and international distribution of verse that would formerly have been confined to the countries and the even narrower locations of the cities in which it was written. This ought to be to poetry’s advantage and eventually is certain to become so. Presently however, the internet doesn’t appear to be doing this as successfully as it ought to.

Format: Paperback
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