The fourth volume of the book series has been published

3 December 2024

On October 21, 2024, our project published a new edited volume. Edited by Marc Matter, Henrik Wehmeier, and Clara Cosima Wolff, Audioliterary Poetry between Performance and Mediatization / Audioliterale Lyrik zwischen Performance und Mediatisierung explores the forms and functions of performed poetry in our digital age.

This volume is the fourth published with the De Gruyter publishing house in the series Poetry in the Digital Age. It is now freely available in open access and can also be purchased as a print copy at https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111561356/html

In thirteen chapters, international scholars address fundamental questions concerning the performance of poetry: How can concepts like “liveness” and “performativity” be applied to digital environments? To what extent are platforms such as YouTube, Instagram, and Tiktok popularizing performed poetry, and what new formats are emerging on those platforms? How is the ubiquity of digital technologies changing experimental sound poetry and how can such techno-poetic experiments be performed live?

To address these questions, the volume brings together authors from various countries and disciplines. The topics they address include:

• Poetry slams as political critique and social practice in Brazil, the UK, the USA, and Italy
• The performance of AI-generated poetry
• Posthuman entanglements between human bodies and digital technology in experimental sound poetry
• The aesthetics and practices of poetic activism on the street and in social media
• The circulation of mediatizations of performed poetry across various digital platforms.

Marc Matter, Henrik Wehmeier, and Clara Cosima Wolff (eds.): Audioliterary Poetry between Performance and Mediatization / Audioliterale Lyrik zwischen Performance und Mediatisierung. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2024. 293 pp. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111561356