Poetry and Work

Jo Lindsay Walton is Research Fellow in Critical and Cultural Theory at the Sussex Humanities Lab, UK. His main research interests are modern and contemporary poetry, speculative fiction, and political economy. Ed Luker is Associate Lecturer at University of Surrey, UK. He completed his PhD at Northumbria University on the poetry of J.H. Prynne in relation to British and North American poetry. As a poet his work includes Peak Return (2014), Headlost (2014), The Sea Together (2016), Compound Out The Fractured World (2017), and Heavy Waters (2019).

• 1. Introduction, Ed Luker and Jo Lindsay Walton.- 2. Show Your Workings: Other Forms of Labor in Recent Poetry, Peter Middleton.- 3. Bird-Song by Everyone, for Everyone: Poetry, Work and Play in J.H. Prynne’s Prose, Lisa Jeschke.- 4. “The stitching of her wake”: The Collaboration of Pamela Campion and Ian Hamilton Finlay, Lila Matsumoto.- 5. Basil Bunting and the Work of Poetry, Annabel Haynes.- 6. Art Takes All My Time: Work in the Poetry and Prison Writing of Anna Mendelssohn, Eleanor Careless.- 7. Queer Labour in Boston: The work of John Wieners, Gay Liberation and Fag Rag, Nat Raha.- 8. Without the Text at Hand: Postcolonial Writing and the Work of Memorisation, Aimée Lê.- 9. Body Burdens: The Materiality of Work in Rita Wong’s forage, Samantha Walton.- 10. “Because We Love Wrong”: Citizenship and Labour in Alena Hairston’s The Logan Topographies, Lytton Smith.- 11. “What Gives Pause or Impetus”: The Double Bind of Labor in Rodrigo Toscano’s Poetics, Jose-Luis Moctezuma.- 12. Distributed and Entangled Posture in Catherine Wagner’s My New Job and Nervous Device, Holly Pester.- 13. The Exploit: Affective Labor and Poetry at the University, Catherine Wagner.- 14. Floating On—if not Up—ward, Tyrone Williams.- 15. Extract from The Poetic Labor Project, Amber DiPietra.