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What do we mean by ´voice´ in poetry? In this work, David Nowell Smith teases out the diverse meanings of ´voice´, from a poem´s soundworld to the rhetorical gestures through which poems speak to us, in order to embark on a philosophical exploration of the concept of voice itself.

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Acknowledgements Voice in Poetry: Opening up a Concept 1. A Natural Scale 2. Vibration and Difference 3. Turnings of the Breath 4. ´The Multitudinous Tongue´ 5. Getting the Measure of Voice Bibliography

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"Nowell Smith begins and ends with Hopkins, giving circular coherence, but each chapter is individually ´essayistic,´ offering a ´speculative poetics.´ ... what is explored here is explored brilliantly. ... this is a fascinating work of animation." (Rebecca Varley-Winter, The Goose, Vol. 14 (2), February, 2016)

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David Nowell Smith is Lecturer in Literature at the University of East Anglia. He is also author of Sounding/Silence: Martin Heidegger at the Limits of Poetics (2013).

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