Performance, Hybridity and Convergence in the Poetry of Alice Oswald and Kae Tempest

This paper looks at two poets, Alice Oswald and Kae Tempest, whose works are largely influenced by oral performance and exist on a plurality of media that are made easily accessible by the Internet. It posits that all actualisations of the poem – whether in a poetry book, a recording, a video, or a...

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Main Author: Bastien Goursaud
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Language:English
Published: Centre de Recherche "Texte et Critique de Texte" 2022-11-01
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/sillagescritiques/14021
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description This paper looks at two poets, Alice Oswald and Kae Tempest, whose works are largely influenced by oral performance and exist on a plurality of media that are made easily accessible by the Internet. It posits that all actualisations of the poem – whether in a poetry book, a recording, a video, or a live performance – are equally important and must be studied in contrast to one another as part of the poetry collection. The latter term is therefore defined as the gathering of all the actualisations of the poem and their relationships. It then examines the poetics of hybridity that such intermedia poems produce and the plural poetic experience they create. It considers the poems in the light of Henry Jenkins’s concept of “convergence culture,” before suggesting that cette convergence is related to the emergence of a poetic community – i.e. a community produced by the oral poem and its plural versions, which is mirrored by the poem itself. Finally, it suggests that such interest in the community may provide a fruitful way of grouping together and comparing works in the diverse field of contemporary British poetry.
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contemporary British poetry
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Tempest (Kae)
title Performance, Hybridity and Convergence in the Poetry of Alice Oswald and Kae Tempest
title_full Performance, Hybridity and Convergence in the Poetry of Alice Oswald and Kae Tempest
title_fullStr Performance, Hybridity and Convergence in the Poetry of Alice Oswald and Kae Tempest
title_full_unstemmed Performance, Hybridity and Convergence in the Poetry of Alice Oswald and Kae Tempest
title_short Performance, Hybridity and Convergence in the Poetry of Alice Oswald and Kae Tempest
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performance
hybridity
contemporary British poetry
Oswald (Alice)
Tempest (Kae)
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