“Poetry, Music, and Sound Art: Recent Medial Correlations / Lyrik, Musik und Klangkunst: Neuere mediale Konstellationen” has been published

18 December 2025

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The volume “Poetry, Music, and Sound Art: Recent Medial Correlations / Lyrik, Musik und Klangkunst: Neuere mediale Konstellationen” has now been published! It was edited by current and former SP2 researchers Rebecka Dürr, Kira Henkel, and Vadim Keylin and follows the international and interdisciplinary conference of the same name, which took place at the Warburg House in June 2024.

This book is the sixth volume in the series Poetry in the Digital Age published with the De Gruyter publishing house. It is now freely available in open access and can also be purchased as a print copy at https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783112213070.

This book examines the evolving medial entanglements between poetry, music, and sound in the digital age, foregrounding the complex interrelations between textuality, vocality, and sonic materiality. Drawing on perspectives from literary sound studies, intermediality theory, and word and music studies, the contributors explore contemporary poetic practices that engage with music and sound beyond conventional musico-literary genres. The phenomena examined here range from recent transformations of traditional oral poetry and the art song to innovative intermedial formats such as poetry audiowalks and spoken music. The book highlights the impact of digital technologies on musico-poetic forms, tracing how contemporary practices challenge traditional genre boundaries and reconfigure listening as an integral component of poetic experience. By bridging historical perspectives with emerging sound cultures, this collection offers new insights into the mediality of poetry and its intersections with music and sound art.

Rebecka Dürr, Kira Henkel and Vadim Keylin (eds.). Poetry, Music, and Sound Art: Recent Medial Correlations / Lyrik, Musik und Klangkunst: Neuere mediale Konstellationen. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2025. 335 pp. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783112213070