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From our book: Poetics and Risk, Feeling Into Being (pp. 5-6). A bit of reading to help understand what Poetics is.

• Armstrong, I., (1993) Victorian Poetry, Poetry, Poetics and Politics. Routledge. New York.
• Bachelard, G., (1964) The Poetics of Space. Beacon Books. Boston.
• Bailes, S., (2011) Performance Theatre and the Poetics of Failure. Routledge. London.
• Berque, A., (2019) Poetics of the Earth, Natural History and Human History. Routledge. London.
• Bok, C., (2002) Pataphysics, The Poetics of an Imaginary Science. Northwestern University Press. Illinois.
• Brooke Gildea, (2018) A Poetics of the Self, Ricœur’s Philosophy of the Will and Living Metaphor as Creative Praxis Ricœur Studies, Vol 9, No 2 (2018), pp. 90-103.
• Brumer, A., (2007) The Poetics of Golf. University of Nebraska. London.
• Bueti, F., (2023) Critical Poetics of Feminist Refusals, Voicing Dissent Across Differences. Routledge. London.
• Chambers, R., (2015) An Atmospherics of the City, Baudelaire and the Poetics of Noise. Fordham Uni Press. New York.
• Coëgnarts, M., and Kravanja, P., (2012) Towards an Embodied Poetics of Cinema: The Metaphoric
• Construction of Abstract Meaning in Film. Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media Issue 4, Winter 2012.
• Cotrupti, C., (2000) Northrop Frye and the Poetics of Process. University of Toronto Press. Toronto.
• Even-Zohar, I., and Hrushovski, B., (Eds.) (1978) Papers of Poetics and Semiotics. Tel Aviv.
• Gibbs, R., (1994) The Poetics of Mind, Figurative Thought, Language, and Understanding. Cambridge University Press London.
• Glissant, E., (2010) Poetics of Relation. University of Michigan Press. Ann Arbor.
• Guirat, M., (ed.) (2018) Politics and Poetics of Belonging. Cambridge Scholars Publishing London.
• Halliwell, S., (Trans) (1995) Aristotle Poetics. Harvard Uni Press. Cambridge Massachusetts.
• Hampton, T., (2019) Bob Dylan’s Poetics, How the Songs Work. Zone Books. New York.
• Hollingsworth, C., (2001) Poetics of the Hive, The Insect Metaphor in Literature. University of Iowa Press. Iowa City.
• Hemer, O., Frykman. M., and Ristilammi, P., (eds.) (2020) Conviviality at the Crossroads, The Poetics and Politics of Everyday Encounters. Palgrave. Sweden.
• Hersfeld, M., (1997) Cultural Intimacy, Social Poetics and the Real Life of States, Societies, and Institutions. Routledge. London.
• Jakobus, M., (2005) The Poetics of Psychoanalysis, In the Wake of Klein. Oxford. London.
• Johnson, J., (2018) Trouble Songs. A Musicological Poetics. Punctum Books. London.
• Karp, I., and Lavine, S., (1990) Exhibiting Cultures, The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display. Smithsonian. Washington.
• Lee, L., (2001) A Poetics for Screenwriters. University of Texas. Austin.
• Lefebvre, N., and Lewis, S., (2001) Poetics of Work. Transit Books. Oaklands.
• Lewis, G., (2013) Quantum Poetics. Bloodaxe Books. London.
• McLeod, N., (2014) Indigenous Poetics in Canada. Wilfred Laurier University Press.
• Meletinsky E., (2000) The Poetics of Myth. Cambridge. London.
• Nagy, G., (1990) Greek Mythology and Poetics. Cornell University Press. Ithica.
• Nicholls, M., (2010) Radical Affections : Essays on the Poetics of Outside. The University of Alabama Press Tuscaloosa.•
• Nowak, M., (2020) Social Poetics. Coffee House Press Minneapolis.
• Panagia, D., (2006) The Poetics of Political Thinking. Duke University. London.
• Pelias, R., (2011) Leaning, A Poetics of Personal Relations. Lefty Coast Press. Walnut Creek CA.
• Perloff, M., (2024) Differentials, Poetry, Poetics, Pedagogy. University of Alabama Press. Tuscaloosa
• Phillips, S., (2010) The Poetics of the Everyday, Creative Repetition in Modern American Verse. Columbia Uni Press. New York.
• Richter, S., (2010) A History of Poetics, German Scholarly Aesthetics and Poetics in International Context, 1770-Gruyter, Berlin.
• Sakellaridou, I., (2001) Mario Botta Architectural Poetics. Thames and Hudson. London.
• Shilo, O., (2022) Beyond Death in The Oresteia, A Poetics, Ethics, and Politics. Cambridge Uni Press. London.
• Sinding, M., (2014) Body of Vision, Northop Frye and The Poetics of Mind. University of Toronto Press. London.
• Stewart, K., (1996) A Space on the Side of the Road. Cultural Poetics in an ‘Other’ America. Princeton. New York.
• Turner, L., (2021) Poetics of Deconstruction, On the Threshold of Differences. Bloomsbury London.
• Wainright, J., (1989) Poetivities, Guiding Creative Poetic Expression Successfully in the Elementary Grades. Good Apple. Carthage.
• Werning, S., (2021) Making Games. The Politics and Poetics of Game Creation Tools. MIT. London.
• Wortham, S., (2013) The Poetics of Sleep, From Aristotle to Nancy. Bloomsbury. London.
• Wright, E., (1999) Speaking Desires can be Dangerous, The Poetics of the Unconscious. Polity Press. London.

You can see from this list of texts just how broad is Poetics. The development, use and structure of language

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