POETIC-INDUCTIVE INTERVENTIONS: Essays in Space, Movement and Method
Les Roberts (in progress, 2025)
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Chapter Outline/Contents (provisional)
Paths Towards a Clearing (A Field in England)
Outline of a Spatial Poetics of Movement and Method
A Phenomenological Poetics of the Travel Image
Lockdown Glimpsed through Lache Eyes
Ffynnon Eulo (A Deep Map)
The Cestrian Book of the Dead Revisited
A Spatial Anthropology of Futility
Blown East of the River Nile
Paths Away From a Clearing (A Field in England)
Poetic-inductive Interventions is a work in progress. Writing began in February 2024. 80% of the book consists of new material; two chapters are reworkings of earlier articles in which key ideas around poetic-inductive methods and phenomenological poetics were explored as precursors to the current book-length study. The sketching of some initial thoughts relating to the project's underpinnng rationale can be accessed here.
Below is a tease, in image only, of chapters completed so far:
Paths Towards a Clearing (A Field in England)
Tollund Man
Magic eye picture
Outline of a Spatial Poetics of Movement and Method
A brick (from Lane End Brickworks, Buckley)
Opera House, Bozeman, Montana
A Phenomenological Poetics of the Travel Image
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Untitled Film Still #48. Cindy Sherman
Cover of my copy of Jack Kerouac's On the Road
Lockdown Glimpsed Through Lache Eyes
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A field in England
The negatively capable poet John Keats
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Untitled Film Still #59. Cindy Sherman
Home (2003 BBC TV adaptation of JG Ballard short story 'The Enormous Space')
Ffynnon Eulo (a deep map)
The Time Tunnel
Ewloe Green
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A holy well (Fynnonn Gelynnin near Conwy)
Edward Lhwyd (1660-1709)