On Authorial Vertigo – Devin Tupper A collaboration between the Critical Poetics Research Group and Nottingham Contemporary, featuring international guest speakers, the Five Bodies series of... Read More On Surrounding – Jeremy Stewart A collaboration between the Critical Poetics Research Group and Nottingham Contemporary, featuring international guest speakers, the Five Bodies series of... Read More Johanna Hedva, Doom and Time by Becky Cullen A collaboration between the Critical Poetics Research Group and Nottingham Contemporary, featuring international guest speakers, the Five Bodies series of... Read More Re:Vision (through my eyes) by Lauren Colley From 2017-2019, Nottingham writer Lauren Colley took part in Re:Vision, a workshop series run by the Critical Poetics Research Group.... Read More Creative-Critical Writing Workshops in Dublin, Tartu and Ljubljana, Nov-Dec 2018 Following the success of our workshops at the UNESCO Creative Cities annual meeting in Katowice (Poland), Dan Cordle and Jo... Read More Writing Outside Your Comfort Zone Anna Bak from Poland writes about her experiences at the creative-critical writing workshops during the UNESCO Creative Cities Network, Katowice,... Read More ‘Critical Reinventions’: Critical Poetics at UEA Thank you to the team at UEA for inviting so many of the Critical Poetics Research Group to speak at... Read More Reading Group Discussion: Rita Felski and Critique Dr Karen Schaller (UEA) led a discussion of Rita Felski’s The Limits of Critique (University of Chicago Press, 2015) for... Read More The Writers’ Conference 2018 Undeterred by the snow, writers from the East Midlands and beyond, gathered at Nottingham Trent University for The Writers’ Conference... Read More Switchboard III: poems and music inspired by the telephone Thursday 23rd November, Wired Café Bar, Pelham Street This live literary event, hosted by Dr Sarah Jackson and Jo Dixon of... Read More Switchboard III This live literary event, hosted by Dr Sarah Jackson and Jo Dixon of Nottingham Trent University, brought together the words... Read More Switchboard II ‘It gave me the chance to talk to someone I usually just talk to in my head.’ On Tuesday 21st... Read More On the Line at Nottingham Industrial Museum – a group poem by writers of Switchboard I On the Line at Nottingham Industrial Museum I’m at the top of a pole with a field telephone around my... Read More Switchboard I For this first event in the Switchboard series during Being Human 17, writers with varied experience gathered at Nottingham Industrial Museum... Read More Re:Vision: An Unending It seems that Re:Vision has started something that isn’t going to end. On 14th June 2017 all the workshop participants... Read More Re:Vision: an exploration of our contemporary experience Re:Vision is nearly over. From April to June 2017 we were privileged to host interviews and conversations with writers and... Read More On Starting the Conversation In her essay ‘Anew Again’ Sarah Wood looks at a photograph of Picasso’s 1913 work ‘Construction au joueur de guitar’. Read More
