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Veronica Forrest-ThomsonThe Reluctant Radical: Identi-Kit and Uncollected Early Poems

Veronica Forrest-Thomson: The Reluctant Radical: Identi-Kit and Uncollected Early Poems [Farmer argues that Forrest-Thomson’s early poems represent a polemical argument for poetry and offer focused critiques of specific poetic practices. Assessing a number of Forrest-Thomson’s early poems, Farmer suggests that their hyper-self-reflexivity provide commentary on the value and veracity of poetic form. As with her later work, Farmer argues that these early poems directly engage with a range of literary-critical debates, with identity politics and with other art forms, and offer a burgeoning critique of mainstream British poetry. Farmer suggests that Forrest-Thomson’s analytical sensibility about the codes, manners and grammars of poetic production were honed in a context of radicalism that she simultaneously espoused and rejected. Farmer ends by suggesting that Forrest-Thomson’s peripheral status gave her poetry and poetic theory its particularly potent force.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Veronica Forrest-ThomsonThe Reluctant Radical: Identi-Kit and Uncollected Early Poems

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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
ISBN
978-3-319-62721-2
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25 –53
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-62722-9_2
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Abstract

[Farmer argues that Forrest-Thomson’s early poems represent a polemical argument for poetry and offer focused critiques of specific poetic practices. Assessing a number of Forrest-Thomson’s early poems, Farmer suggests that their hyper-self-reflexivity provide commentary on the value and veracity of poetic form. As with her later work, Farmer argues that these early poems directly engage with a range of literary-critical debates, with identity politics and with other art forms, and offer a burgeoning critique of mainstream British poetry. Farmer suggests that Forrest-Thomson’s analytical sensibility about the codes, manners and grammars of poetic production were honed in a context of radicalism that she simultaneously espoused and rejected. Farmer ends by suggesting that Forrest-Thomson’s peripheral status gave her poetry and poetic theory its particularly potent force.]

Published: Oct 12, 2017

Keywords: Poetic Form; Poetic Practice; Concrete Poem; Yellow Bird; Press Hacking

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