It Begins in the Book: writing the material poem is a thesis by James Stuart, exploring the materiality of language in relation to poetry. It attempts to establish a model by which we can assess poems as language-objects, comprised of both a material basis (the way in which readers derive a response from a text) and material expression (the physical/virtual form in which the poem is presented to us).
It Begins in the Book was written as part of a Masters of Creative Arts at the University of Technology Sydney. The practice-led components of the project are as follows:
The Homeless Gods (2006-2007)
A Flash poem presented as an interactive map interface
The Material Poem (2006-2007)
An anthology of text-based art and
intermedia writing
Conversions (2008)
An exhibition of poetry in translation
