The Words Already Around Us: A Conversation Between Rupert Loydell and H. L. Hix'

Written By Geoffrey Gatza

I am very pleased to announce that 'The Words Already Around Us: A Conversation Between Rupert Loydell and H. L. Hix' is now published in volume 10 of Writing in Practice, which can be downloaded for free at https://www.nawe.co.uk/writing-in-education/writing-at-university/writing-in-practice/current-issue.html

The issue also includes a wide range of other material including a fascinating piece'Kinepoetics: An Embodied Journey Through Poetry, Dance And Therapy' by Scott Thurston



The Words Already Around Us: 
A Conversation Between Rupert Loydell and H. L. Hix

In this dialogue H. L. Hix and Rupert Loydell discuss the reasons for “impersonal” methodologies in writing, in response to the overcrowded information age we live in and to fragmentation, appropriation and remixology. Philosophy, creativity, politics and the personal inform this debate, with the authors interrogating one another’s recent and past books of poetry as a springboard to think about the nature of 21st Century writing and current poetics.

Geoffrey Gatza

Bio Note: Geoffrey Gatza is the author of the poetry collections The House of Forgetting (2012), Apollo: A Conceptual Poem (2014), and A Dog Lost in the Brick City of Outlawed Trees (2018).

 

Divya Victor, in an article for poetryfoundation.org, said of Apollo: A Conceptual Poem “The diversity of these works echoes the complexities of the subject, but together they posit something specific, the heightened relationship between the interior self and the exterior world.”

 

Gatza’s poems have been published in anthologies, as well as magazines and journals including Fence, Tarpaulin Sky, The Pickled Body, Peach Mag, Tupelo Quarterly and various others. His play on Marcel Duchamp was staged in an art installation in Philadelphia and performed in NYC.

 

Gatza is an award-winning editor, publisher and poet. He is the driving force behind BlazeVOX, an independent press located in Buffalo, NY, specializing in innovative fictions and wide ranging fields of contemporary poetry. Geoffrey Gatza is lives in Kenmore, NY.

editor@blazevox.org

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