Thank you to the team at UEA for inviting so many of the Critical Poetics Research Group to speak at Critical Reinventions on Saturday 12th May. Writers, scholars and PhD students from across the UK gathered to explore an array of inventive forms of non-standard criticism and discuss what might be possible in literary studies. Zayneb Allak began the day with a veering presentation on ‘berserkeria’ – a ‘dodgem of a word’ – in the short fiction of Juno Diaz, asking us to think about how the collisions generated by this neologism might affect our creative-critical writing. In the next panel, Jo Dixon presented a hybrid paper using poetry, image and theory to consider seeing and not-seeing and ways of knowing and not-knowing in Index Cixous: Cix Pax, a wordless book comprised of a series of photographs of Cixous taken by American artist Roni Horn. After lunch, Hannah Cooper-Smithson investigated the use of form in creating textual mimics of the visual effects and illusions of repetition and infinity and transformations in the work of M.C. Escher. In a parallel session Emma Cocker shared a variety of performative examples from ‘conversation-as-material’, a method of art writing, and reflected on these collaborations as a mode of self-reflexive enquiry and artistic production. The day concluded with a round-table discussion initiated by three writers working at the intersections of creative and critical practice and theory: Kate Briggs, Daniela Cascella and Sarah Jackson. Sarah’s commingling of voice mail messages, creative practice and critical theory encouraged us all to think about ideas of calling and hospitality in our writing. This was a day packed full of exciting possibilities, lively discussions and great company. Now for more writing …