Janette Hughes

Poets, Poetry and New Media: Attending to the Teaching and Learning of Poetry Janette Hughes

This book explores the intersection of (1) poetry, (2) digital learning environments, and (3) multiple literacies, pushing and exploring the boundaries of what can be done with poetry in an online, digital environment. The research is based on interviews with prominent contemporary Canadian poets in an attempt to explore the nature of poetry, the teaching and learning of poetry and the potential role of new media. A multimodal approach to poetry, (with an emphasis on the visual, spatial, gestural, audio, and linguistic), can offer new and powerful ways to think about and understand poetry. The findings in this book suggest that new media?s performative potential facilitates a multimodal understanding of poetry. Reading and writing poetry in new media blurs the boundary between a poem and its performance and reminds us of poetry?s oral origins.