Poetry in the digital age
Contemporary poetry is often spoken or performed on stage, it is accompanied by music, available on CDs and DVDs, in online audio and video recordings, in the pop-cultural format of ‘poetry clips’, or as artistic ‘video poems’. New media poetry employs kinetic script and translates visual poetry onto the internet. Such formats have drawn attention to the intermedial tradition of poetry. However, new theories are required to analyze poetry in the digital age. ‘Book poetry’ is being enhanced by popular formats and vice versa. This entanglement between art and popular culture is particularly significant for contemporary lyric practice. The paper suggests to structure research in this emerging field into three topic areas: poetry and performance, poetry and music, and poetry and visual culture.