A Poetic Language of Ageing

This book explores the potential of poetry and poetic language to convey perspectives on later life, addressing questions about ageing and capturing its ambiguities and complexities. It presents analyses of published poetry, reading and writing poetry among lay people, and poetic nuances from other literary practices and contexts.

Format: Hardback
Length: 232 pages
Publication date: 15 June 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Poetry and poetic language have the potential to convey perspectives on later life, exploring questions such as how we understand ageing and later life and how we capture the ambiguities and complexities that the experiences of growing old in time and place entail. As poetic language illuminates, transfigures, and enchants our being in the world, it also offers insights into the existential questions that are amplified as we age, including the vulnerabilities and losses that humble us and connect us. This volume suggests a path towards the poetics of ageing by presenting analyses of published poetry on ageing, the use of reading and writing poetry among lay people in old age, and the poetic nuances that emerge from other literary practices and contexts in relation to ageing. It includes personal poetic reflections from many of the contributing authors.

Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781350256804