Otherwise Occupied

<p>In this serious often playful sometimes outrageous volume Murray draws inspiration from contemporary women’s experimental poetics. The collection recognises female writers’ equivocal relation to forms of the linguistic avant-garde such as L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetry and brings embodiment and affective voicing back into the provocative equation. Yet this is not a simple return to lyric intimacy. Murray inflects poetry’s familiar inner speech with the sounds and shapes of found materials and engaging cultural noise.</p><p>In <em>Otherwise Occupied</em> the seamlessness of the beautiful expressive poem becomes otherwise under the innovative necessity of the page as an open field of multiple (mis)takes and (mis)givings. Here a poem is a space of enactment a process of thinking-writing and performative exploration: idea ↔ body lyric ↔ language innovative necessity ↔ enduring convention. And in the end: there is no subject outside language.</p>