Appearance: Exploring Speculative Poetry

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"Speculative poetry is a way of elegantly exploring fantastic realms usually limited to film and prose. From Cylon basestar poetry to Beowulf, we analyse what makes a speculative poem and look at what the future may hold."

So reads the blurb for my panel at this year's Continuum. Emma Osborne - author of Crashdown and many others - and myself will be there in the Sun room at 8.00 pm on Sunday the 7th of June, to confront the question of why there should be "genre" poetry at all? We probably won't discuss Cylons, even if they do paraphrase Yeats from time to time. LEXX, and Spike from Buffy may get a mention, but so may Ann K. Schwader, Bruce Boston, Lucy Snyder and Wade German. We will consider the differences between poetry and prose, the current state of the poetry market and important competitions.

Come along and broaden your horizons! And get a nice, front row seat for the next panel, on the television adaptations of Marvel and DC comics!

See the day's full program here.

Comments

[murasaki-1966.livejournal.com]

Have fun. I hope to be at Continum next year.

[ankh-hpl.livejournal.com]

Thanks for thinking of me, or at least of my dark words!

[kylaw.livejournal.com]

I am intending to escort the audience through "In The Yaddith Time", as well as Bruce Boston's Mutant Rainforest, as examples of free-standing poetry that treats of speculative themes.