Introduction : Situating Poetics and place : context, method and theoretical foundation -- Object, sign and punctuating space : tracing an emergence of the indexical symbol through Roni Horn's Pair object III : for two rooms -- The page as site : a creative and critical performance of Emily Dickinson's later manuscripts -- Projecting the voice : Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Passages paysages and the ethics of aesthetic relation -- Performing the line : Fiona Templeton's Cells of release as poetical/political activism -- The material reach of the word : Jenny Holzer's Lustmond and the responsibility of art -- Conclusion : Leaving Poetics and place : opening questions onto the material and spatial potential of empathic process