That Audible Slippage

Audible Slippage is a collection of poems that explore the ways in which we interact with the world, balancing perception and embodiment alongside a hypnagogic terrain of grief and mortality. It focuses on audibility, what can be heard, what is obstructed, and what remains unheard. The collection includes a suite of poems that explore interior listening to the self as sensation machine and the collaged external soundscape, as well as a fragmentary "Listening Line Notebook" that multiplies the treatment of listening as a situated perceptual, sensory, and ethical process. A final long poem called "The Incubation" navigates ideas of being asleep and awake, altered and attuned, and spiritually dis/located in time and space.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 104 pages
Publication date: 22 February 2024
Publisher: University of Alberta Press

Audible Slippage is a collection of poems that explores the ways in which we interact with the world, balancing perception and embodiment alongside a hypnagogic terrain of grief and mortality. The primary theme of the collection is audibility, and many of the poems try to hold spaces open for the slipperiness of the heard and unheard, as well as the not-yet heard and their associated problems. The opening section, "A Branch of Happen," explores interior listening to both the self as sensation machine and the collaged external soundscape we both hear and fail to hear within the assailing violences and inequities of the news. A second suite, "Heart is a Guest Whippet Resting on a Firm Trunk," is troubled by memories of deceased loved-ones amid the North Saskatchewan River valley and the many-layered history of amiskwaciwâskahikan (Edmonton). The fragmentary "Listening Line Notebook" multiplies the treatment of listening as a situated perceptual, sensory, and ethical process. A final long poem called "The Incubation" navigates ideas of being asleep and awake, altered and attuned, as well as spiritually dis/located in time and space. Poised within and beyond both established and emergent traditions of ecocriticism, contemporary feminisms, and experimental lyric, this intriguing and probing work of sound-illuminated poems welcomes readers into its overlapping worlds with grace.

Weight: 120g
Dimension: 229 x 152 x 6 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781772127393