Poetry Nz 31

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ISBN: POETNZ31
Title: Poetry Nz 31
Author: POETRY NEW ZEALAND

Issue 31 features the work of Alistair Campbell, one of New Zealand’s most widely published and anthologised poets who was in January of this year made an Officer of the Order of New Zealand for his distinguished and longterm contribution to literature.

As has often been said, poetry is perhaps best thought of not so much as residing in its subject matter or \”message\” as in process – in the writing and experiencing of the poem itself – in what happens emotionally, intellectually and aesthetically while it’s being read, heard or written. Art and poetry (despite Jung’s collective unconscious) are individual and personal because they’re experienced in the same way as we experience everything else – alone and unaided by anything other than our physical senses and the various ways we mentally and emotionally (in David Hume’s words) deal with \”sense data\” and relate these to what we’ve previously encountered.

The \”collective\” aspect of the aesthetic experience consists of the complex fragments and \”bytes\” of information, knowledge, belief and opinion we acquire moment by moment from television, newspapers, magazines, books, the theatre, movies, the natural environment, the people we have contact with and what we do and don’t do. But we’re all inventive and the chunks and fragments of experience and knowledge that keep coming to us are always changing and constantly being modified. Everything changes: we as individuals change – and our view of poetry, our belief in and experience of what constitutes art and poetry, changes as well.

Format: Paperback
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