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A poetic playground: collaborative practices in the Peak District
- Source :
- Landscape Research. 42:677-689
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- Informa UK Limited, 2017.
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Abstract
- © 2017 Landscape Research Group Ltd. The literary map of the Peak District is surprisingly thin. This article explores how this lacuna has been addressed by a range of contemporary writers who have made the Peak District a site of poetic hyperactivity: a landscape of creative processes and practices; projects and poems of place. Paying particular attention to texts by Helen Mort, Mark Goodwin and Alec Finlay, the article contends that much contemporary Peak District poetry is underpinned by imaginative and formal experimentation: a shared commitment to the exploration of new ways of perceiving, practising and representing landscape which is characterised by a collective playfulness. Moreover, the article argues that much contemporary Peak District poetry is shaped by collaboration as the poets placed under critical scrutiny share a preoccupation with finding new creative methodologies to articulate the communal experience of being-in-landscape.
- Subjects :
- Scrutiny
Poetry
05 social sciences
Geography, Planning and Development
0211 other engineering and technologies
0507 social and economic geography
021107 urban & regional planning
02 engineering and technology
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
medicine.anatomical_structure
Aesthetics
medicine
Sociology
050703 geography
Nature and Landscape Conservation
General Environmental Science
Lacuna
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Details
- ISSN :
- 14699710 and 01426397
- Volume :
- 42
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Landscape Research
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....dad76a3fdcdcec649ebdd485f92ed00e