Overview

Poetry in the Mind is the first book-length cognitive analysis focused entirely on 21st century poetic texts and their conceptual effects. Addressing central poetic notions or features of poetic style from an innovative cognitive perspective, the book sheds new light on established ideas about poetic creativity and language. It acts as a showcase both for cutting-edge cognitive research and for the linguistic creativity of renowned poets such as Simon Armitage, Jo Bell, John Burnside, Sinéad Morrissey, Alice Oswald, and Kate Tempest. Addresses a central poetic notion or feature of poetic style in each chapter from the innovative perspective of cognitive poetics Explores cutting edge concepts in cognition, such as situated simulation, world-building, deictic projection, embodiment conceptual blending Fully contextualised analyses of the stylistic features of whole poems and their conceptual effects