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'A stream of words' - the Antwerp Quay Poem as interrogation of urban open form, polyphony and radical dialogue
Authors: Ameel Lieven
Publisher: Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis
Publication year: 2022
Journal: Textual Practice
Journal name in source: TEXTUAL PRACTICE
Journal acronym: TEXTUAL PRACT
Volume: 36
Issue: 7
First page : 1175
Last page: 1194
Number of pages: 20
ISSN: 0950-236X
eISSN: 1470-1308
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/0950236X.2021.1903545
Web address : https://doi.org/10.1080/0950236X.2021.1903545
Self-archived copy’s web address: https://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/53708280
This article examines polyphony and open form as key concepts connecting literary theory and urban planning. It focuses on Peter Holvoet-Hanssen's Quay Poem, an in-situ poem painted in 2011 on the floodwalls of the Antwerp quays during Holvoet-Hanssen's tenure as city poet. The long poem in public space provides important insights into how literary city texts and the discourses of urban development draw ultimately on similar narrative structures, in close dialogue with past layers of urban meaning and in the shadow of future material transformations. The poem gestures also to insights planning can gain from literary forms of storytelling, in particular in the way Holvoet-Hanssen's poem produces a remarkable openness of form; in the way it articulates a radical variety of different voices; and in the way it continues to speak after the text itself has disappeared from the public built environment.
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