What Is Science Fiction Poetry? Part 1: Definition

It's poetry that's also science fiction. What more is there to say?

Quite a lot, actually. I'm not even going to attempt to define poetry, but science fiction itself is a notoriously slippery beast. To make it into Voyagers, the anthology of New Zealand science fiction poetry that Mark Pirie and myself are co-editing, poems had to pass the twin filters of being good poetry, and of having a science-fictional element: of either or both using science fiction imagery, or science fiction ideas.

Here's

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Published on February 08, 2009 01:21
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