Poetry off the Page: International Advances in Poetry Performance Research

In recent decades, poetry performance has been one of the fastest growing arts practices internationally. Since movements such as Beat poetry, jazz poetry, rap and poetry slam have inspired performance scenes across the English-speaking world and beyond, innovative performance styles have emerged alongside new genres and styles of composition geared towards oral performance, often fuelled by rapidly evolving media technologies.

This special collection starts from an understanding of oral poetry performance as not a subsidiary to the written word but as a parallel mode of instantiating the poetic text. It features new research on contemporary poetry performance and spoken word poetry from around the globe. Attending to local/national practices as well as transnational movements, it aims to shed new light on the aesthetics, politics, medialities and histories of performed poetries, and to advance the theory and methodology of poetry performance studies.

Editors: Shefali Banerji (Guest Editor), Rachel Bolle-Debessay (Guest Editor), Julia Lajta-Novak (Guest Editor)


Poetry Off the Page: Intersecting Practices and Traditions in British Poetry Performance

Popping Culture: Spoken Word and Nostalgia
Popping Culture: Spoken Word and Nostalgia

Jack McGowan

2025-08-20 Volume 11 • Issue 2 • 2025

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