Explorations in Experimental Formalism

Abstract

Poets who write on the innovative, or experimental edge of their field and often outside of it, do not always know how to describe their writing and its products to others. This paper will be an attempt by Judy Kendall, who leads the English and Creative Writing BA Programme at Salford University, UK, to explore what it means to write under the title of Experimental Formalism as a poet and short fiction writer specialising in experimental visual text. The paper will present her understanding of what it is she does under the auspices of Experimental Formalism, and what she means by that term.