Opposite: Poems, Philosophy and Coffee
Opposite: Poems, Philosophy and Coffee
Helen Mort & Aaron Meskin
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What happens when poetry and philosophy converge? Over coffee at Leeds’ Opposite Cafe, award-winning poet Helen Mort and Professor of Philosophical Aesthetics Aaron Meskin set out to explore that very question.
Their caffeine-fuelled discussions morphed into the intriguing concept behind this book: a cross-disciplinary creative dialogue in which the poet lets her imagination loose on philosophical texts and the authors of the papers respond.
Like all the best coffee shop conversations, the results take unexpected turns through the art of tattooing, graffiti, Belle & Sebastian, food, rock climbing and whether there’s such a thing as bad art. So pull up a chair, and join Helen, Aaron and ten of the world’s leading philosophers of art for coffee, poetry and everything in between.
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Imprint: Valley Press
Published: May 2019
ISBN: 9781912436217
Catalogue no: VP0141
Page count: 60
Trim size: 198 x 129 mm
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Praise for Opposite: Poems, Philosophy and Coffee:
“A fascinating series of exchanges that delight and inspire in equal measure, and will be of interest to anyone looking for ways to engage with the world afresh.”
— Marion Thain, Professor of Literature and Culture at King’s College London
About the author
Helen Mort is a poet, novelist and lecturer in creative writing at the Manchester Writing School, Manchester Metropolitan University. Her poetry, collected in Division Street and No Map Could Show Them, has been shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Costa Award. Her first novel Black Car Burning was published by Chatto & Windus, and she has also written plays, short stories and creative non-fiction. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Aaron Meskin is Head of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Georgia. He works on a variety of issues in philosophical aesthetics, the philosophy of food, and philosophical psychology. Aaron is the editor and author of numerous publications including The Routledge Companion to Comics (2016) and The Art of Comics: A Philosophical Approach (Wiley-Blackwell 2012).