The politics of space

poetical dwelling and the occupation of poetry

Miles Kennedy

pp. 209-228

in: Bill Richardson (ed), Spatiality and symbolic expression, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015

Abstract

In this chapter, by attempting to work within a specific version of the general framework of four zones outlined in the Introduction to this volume, I critique what I term the Heideggerian conception of Hölderlin's poetical dwelling, in order to examine and question the effaced underpinnings of much of what has been said about spatiocultural studies up to this point. An examination of Tom Paulin's poetic riposte to this Heideggerian occupation as articulated in his 2002 poetry collection, The Invasion Handbook, is taken as an act of counter-occupation that points toward a more authentic and politically committed appraisal of poetical dwelling and human occupation itself.

Cited authors

Heidegger Martin