extratext
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love inside the walls of conformity
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nets and nots
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the flag in its labyrinth
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poetic engineering of 'the home'
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cycling through 'the mundane'
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poetic responses to eco-catastrophe
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extratext • love inside the walls of conformity • nets and nots • the flag in its labyrinth • poetic engineering of 'the home' • cycling through 'the mundane' • poetic responses to eco-catastrophe •
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Love inside the walls of conformity
Dalija Konstantinović
Should poetry and art be confined by a firm set of rules? Or should it be left to follow whatever one’s heart desires? It’s an age-old question, a standard that changes with each new movement…
Nets and Nots
Joseph Hamilton
Young poets are often introduced to established poetic form via some variation of the metaphor of the container. A metaphor that expands
to account for the concept of generative constraint, which states that by clarifying your poem’s rules, you might somehow unlock its potential…
The Flag in Its Labyrinth
Alavara Hatton
I could say that I’ve been thinking a lot about transnationality lately, but really it’s more accurate to say that I think a lot about transnationality in general. But for all that thinking, I can’t definitively say anything about it. I cannot define what it means to you, how the shape of its sound and meaning fit onto you like skin.
Poetic Engineering of ‘The Home’
Joseph Hamilton
Here, home is personal (it could be a house, a village, a country), yet fixed (the thing that the metonym of “home” replaces is of a specific place and time, from which specific memories arise). It is usually nostalgic, always dying, and in various ways waiting to be inherited…
Cycling through ‘The Mundane’
Elly Hong & Kelsey Edwards
Come with us on a bike ride as we break down why the ‘mundane’ isn’t something negative or to shy away from. Our life is made of repetitions and routines. They’re the spinning wheels rotating us through daily life. In the rhythm of the everyday, individual moments –no, think smaller…
Poetic Responses to Eco-catastrophe
In my local aquarium, there is a model of the earth illuminated by a projector. At seven, it was my first glance into eco-catastrophe. When you turn a dial to the left, the projector shows our continents travelling back in time to make one green land mass: 200 Million Years Ago. When you turn it to the right, this land scatters …
Laura van Diesen
A Review of Blossomise by Simon Armitage
As I handed him copies of Blossomise, opened to the correct page to make signing swifter, Armitage expanded on its origins and composition. He explained that the twenty-one poems originally began as ten and then eleven but increased in number as he travelled more and subsequently found more inspiration and content…
Kelsey Edwards
why
extratext?
boundby’s editors are engaged in facilitating conversation between poetry and essay
extratext is all about what is supplementary, what is intertextual and contextual, what is researched, footnoted or indexed, what relies on source material
extratext is concerned both with the writing-about-poetry in its own right, and with intentionally disturbing and reimagining what constitutes study and what amounts to essay