The poem “Who Not to Speak To,” by Marianne Morris, depicts the multidirectional debate of forums in a so-called “cybersphere”.
Personal opinion and public voices mix together in a frenzy of online communication where “a digital mirror sputters, / the lines rage aimless / the passion is aimless.”
RESEARCH
Dorothy Butchard discusses this poem with others by Zoe Skoulding and Redell Olsen, in ‘Secrecy, Surveillance and Poetic Data Bodies‘ (2019) for a special issue on Poetry and Secrecy in the Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry.
Who shared this example?
-
Dorothy Butchard
Dr Dorothy Butchard is Assistant Professor in Contemporary Literature and Digital Cultures at the University of Birmingham. Dorothy’s research explores how fiction, poetry, creative media and digital works respond to technological change and its effects on wellbeing and community. She is academic theme lead for Imagining Wellbeing in the Centre for Urban Wellbeing, co-director of University…
