The Exophonic Writer Podcast
Hi, I'm Zoe! 🙋♀️ I'm a Visual Linguist and Exophonic Writer based in Melbourne, Australia. Join me each episode while I podcast my quest to understand how exophony is changing the world.
Exophony (or the art of creative writing in a non-native language) is an old practice that's getting more and more prominence in recent years.
Some questions that keep me awake at night (which fuel this podcast) are:
✨Why do writers choose to write in a non-native language over their mother tongue? How does this choice impact their work?
✨Is the world welcoming the works of exophonic writers? Or are they treated as less good than native authors?
✨Are exophonic writers embracing our own imperfect styles or are we trying to appear as close to native as possible?
✨ What will normalising exophonic practices mean for global readers and literature?
If that sounds like what you need to hear right now, press play and embark with me in an exophonic creative journey! 🎧 SEASON 2, COMING AUGUST 1ST 2025! 🎧
The Exophonic Writer Podcast
13 - Bonus series: 📜Poetry 📜
If you only think poetry is rhyming short texts about love or heartbreak... well, you may be missing out!
Listen to today's episode to find out some cool sides of poetry. ✨
SHOW NOTES
📜What is poetry?
https://poets.org/glossary/poetry#:~:text=The%20following%20definition%20of%20the,language%3B%20an%20experience%20through%20words.
📜Infrathin: an experiment in micropoetics -Marjorie Perloff
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57229765-infrathin
📜1000 INFRATHINS
chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://monoskop.org/images/2/21/1000_Infrathins_2018.pdf
📜Shortest poem
https://nikkiwordsmith.com/the-worlds-shortest-poem-by-muhammad-ali/#:~:text=According%20The%20Guinness%20Book%20of,and%20a%20half%20letters%20long.
📜Ekphrastic Poetry
https://www.thoughtco.com/ekphrastic-poetry-definition-examples-4174699
📜Acrostic poem - written by me
https://www.instagram.com/p/CukRbNpuEzX/
📜Introduction to Found Poetry - video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3K1sMhKiSQ
📜Black-out poem - created by me
https://www.instagram.com/p/C0djyIYvqof/
📜Newspaper Blackout - by Austin Kleon
https://austinkleon.com/newspaperblackout/
📜Vampire Sestina - by Neil Gaiman
https://angelsalvogomez.blogspot.com/2011/10/vampire-sestina-by-neil-gaiman.html
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