Titlebook: Contemporary Women‘s Poetry and Urban Space; Experimental Cities Zoë Skoulding Book 2013 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 20

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Performance and Absence in the Heterotopian Cityetween this site and the city beyond it can be seen variously; the rarefied atmosphere of some poetry readings might occasionally suggest that there is little connection between the two, while others, for example those in which poetry asserts a strong regional identity, might be viewed as continuati

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Geraldine Monk’s Restless Soil against the time-space compression of global capitalism to recover English as a multilayered temporal accretion of languages with specific, though always changing, relationships to place. Monk’s English, spoken from urban locations in the north of the UK that occupy a culturally marginal position i

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Ágnes Lehóczky and the Palimpsestic Cityh dense clusters of verbal images are packed into justified columns or pages of text. Lehóczky’s work has an important precursor in the Hungarian prose poems of Ágnes Nemes Nagy, on whom she has written critically, though within her adopted culture her work is more difficult to place, and its obsess

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Lisa Robertson: Prosody of the Poliseshed. Her earlier work . (2005) seems at first, as a ‘site-specific’ text written in Cambridge, to promise an embodied response to an urban environment, but in fact it uses textual sources to interrogate the linguistic assumptions on which the concept of the city is based. A recent essay, ‘Disquiet

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Performance and Absence in the Heterotopian Citybringing it into conjunction with lived spaces; the poem at the moment of performance enters into relationships with its surroundings, material and social. However, these relationships are all mediated by the poem; they are changed by a text that is both present, because it is embodied, and absent,