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Performing poetry : body, rhythm and place in the poetry performance

For this collection Gräbner co-wrote the introduction (70%) and contributed an article entitled “‘The Hurricane doesn’t Roar in Pentameters’: Rhythmanalysis in Performed Poetry” (pp.71-88). The collection brings together research carried out on performance poetry in different cultural and linguistic contexts. The introduction gives an overview on theoretical research into performance poetry to-date and outlines the comparative and intercultural theoretical approach practiced throughout the volume. Gräbner’s own article draws on Henri Lefebvre’s Rhythmanalysis, to argue with reference to poems by Saul Williams and Willie Perdomo that in performance poetry, poetic rhythms are deployed to analyse urban environments.