Poetic-inductive Interventions

POETIC-INDUCTIVE INTERVENTIONS: Essays in Space, Movement and Method 

Les Roberts (in progress, 2025)

    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

    Untitled Film Still #48. Cindy Sherman

    Cover of my copy of Jack Kerouac's On the Road

    Lockdown Glimpsed Through Lache Eyes

    A field in England

    The negatively capable poet John Keats 

    Untitled Film Still #59. Cindy Sherman

    Home (2003 BBC TV adaptation of JG Ballard short story 'The Enormous Space')

    Ffynnon Eulo (a deep map)

    Ewloe Green

    A holy well (Fynnonn Gelynnin near Conwy)

    Edward Lhwyd (1660-1709)