Focus and Scope

„Forum of Poetics” is a bilingual (Polish and English) philological quarterly, published in digital form and dealing with contemporary problems of poetics. The purpose of the journal is to generate systematic and multifaceted thought on the transformations of poetics that have resulted from changes in philology and the humanities. In each of the thematically organized issues of „Forum of Poetics” there will be articles grouped in regular departments. The main, theoretical department will offer general perspectives on matters of poetics today. The translation department is tasked with developing knowledge on the newest poetics concepts from abroad. An important feature called “Poetics Dictionary” contains articles relating to contemporary perspectives and utterances on problems not yet assimilated by the lexicography of the discipline. The increasingly crucial importance of practices essential to knowledge production has necessitated the creation of a department of interpretation and praxis, in which certain formulas of poetics will be printed in the course of literary analyses. Beside the necessary survey and reviews of current works of poetics broadly understood, we are proposing an additional section called “Poetics Archive,” in which poetics concepts which have been somewhat or entirely forgotten will be presented anew, since we feel it is worth testing their capacity to inspire contemporary humanities thought.

"Forum of Poetics" does not charge fees for publishing an article (APCs) nor any other fees.

Peer Review Process

„Forum of Poetics” reviewing practices:

1. reviewers for „Forum of Poetics” journal are individuals from outside the institution with which the editor-in-chief is affiliated;
2.at least two independent reviewers from outside that institution are asked to evaluate each article or text published in the magazine;
3. when dealing with texts written in a foreign language (a language other than Polish), at least one of the reviewers is affiliated with a foreign (non-Polish);
4. our reviewing practices involve a double-blind review process: authors and reviewers are not aware of each other’s identity;
5. each reviewer must sign a declaration of the absence of any conflict of interest; conflicts of interest are constituted by the following relationships between reviewer and author:
– direct personal relationships (kinship, legal association, conflict),

– relationships of professional subordination,

– direct scholarly collaboration within the two years previous to the review’s preparation.

Reviews are completed in writing and end with an unambiguous verdictin favor of either publishing or rejecting the article. The principles on which articles are accepted or rejected are published on the magazine’s home page.

Journal Open Access Policy

ARTICLES ARE LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS CREATIVE COMMONS: 

Journal Ethics 

The Editors of the „Forum Poetics / Forum of Poetics” inform that in their publishing practice they apply the COPE publication ethics standards. In case of suspicion about the fact that any of the Authors may fail to follow the principles of good publication practices, the Editors take steps provided in the following schemes. We kindly ask all Authors to thoroughly familiarize with the publication ethics policy developed by Comitee On Publication Ethics at this link.

Journal History

"Forum Poetyki / Forum of Poetics" was created under the grant "Poetics - new perspectives", financed by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education in the research module 1.1 of the National Program for the Development of Humanities 2013/2014. The project manager was prof. dr hab. Tomasz Mizerkiewicz.