Ecological Imaginaries Workshops 1-5pm, 3 May 2023 Nottingham Trent University As part of the ‘Ecological Imaginaries: A Research Network Development Symposium’ taking place... Read More Five Bodies 2022: Entanglements Call for Workshop Participants Join us for a series of free monthly workshops exploring creative-critical writing, hybrid methodologies and experimental thinking. A collaboration between... Read More Freedom and Care: Maggie Nelson in Conversation with Seán Hewitt, 2 July 2021 Online, Friday 2 July 2021, 7-8.30pm Watch Here Maggie Nelson is the author of several books of poetry and prose,... Read More Troubling Care: Nat Raha, Bhanu Kapil and Raymond Antrobus – 1 July 2021 Online, Thursday 1 July 2021, 7-8.30pm Watch Here Featuring three of the most exciting writers working in the UK –... Read More Inter-species Care: Maya Chowdhry and Mama D Ujuaje in Conversation with Eva Giraud – 30 June 2021 Online, Wednesday 30 June 2021, 7-8.30pm (BST) Watch Here For this event, researcher and facilitator Mama D Ujuaje and writer... Read More Care and Waiting: Marion Coutts in Conversation with Laura Salisbury – 29 June 2021 Online, Tuesday 29 June 2021, 7-8.30pm (BST) Watch Here Marion Coutts’ award-winning memoir The Iceberg was written in response to the diagnosis,... Read More Care for the Stranded: Astrida Neimanis – 28 June 2021 Online, Monday 28 June 2021, 7-8.30pm Watch Here Under conditions of anthropogenic climate change, colonialism, militarism, and global capitalism, the... Read More Care in the Time of Covid: Michael Rosen in Conversation – 25 June 2021 Online, Friday 25 June 2021, 7-8.30pm (BST) Watch Here Poet, broadcaster, children’s author and columnist, Michael Rosen is a prodigious... Read More Five Bodies Workshop and Reading, May 2021: ‘On the Notational’ with Maureen N. McLane On Wednesday 12 May 2021, an international group of artists, writers and researchers gathered for the sixth and final... Read More NTU English Research Seminar, Dr Rebecca Kosick: ‘Let the Poets Teach Us to Read’ – Wednesday 5 May 2021 On Wednesday 5th May 2021, we were joined by Dr Rebecca Kosick (University of Bristol) for the second CPRG-hosted... Read More Five Bodies Workshop and Reading, April 2021: ‘On Verticality’ with J. R. Carpenter On the Wednesday 14 March 2021, the CPRG was joined by artist, writer, researcher and performer, J. R. Carpenter,... Read More Five Bodies Workshop and Reading, March 2021: ‘On Surrounding’ with Simone White On the 10 March 2021, the CPRG welcomed poet and academic Simone White to deliver the fourth session in... Read More NTU English Research Seminar, Dr Holly Corfield Carr – 3 March 2021 On Wednesday 3rd March, Dr Holly Corfield Carr was invited by the Critical Poetics Research Group to deliver a paper... Read More Five Bodies Critical Creative Workshop and Poetry Reading – Feb 2021 (Johanna Hedva) On Wednesday 10th February 2021, an international group of artists, writers and researchers gathered for the third time... Read More A Celebration of the Dial-a-Poem App – Nov 2020 On Wednesday 25th November 2020, the Nottingham Creative Writing Hub hosted Dial-a-Poem, a celebration of the Dial-a-Poem app, developed as... Read More Five Bodies Workshop and Reading with James Goodwin – Dec 2020 On Wednesday 9th December 2020, an international group of artists, writers and researchers gathered for the second time in the Five Bodies... Read More Creative-Critical Workshop with Nisha Ramayya – Nov 2020 On Wednesday 11th November 2020, seventeen participants from across the UK and beyond came together for the first session... Read More NTU English Research Seminar, Dr Jack Thacker: ‘Versus: Georgic Reworkings’ – November 2020 On Wednesday 25th November, the first talk in the 2020-21 English Research Seminar series at NTU featured Dr Jack Thacker,... Read More Five Bodies: Critical Poetics Workshops Full Programme – 2020-2021 A collaboration between the Critical Poetics Research Group at Nottingham Trent University and Nottingham Contemporary, featuring international guest speakers, this series of... Read More CP Research Seminar – 4 March 2020 On Wednesday 4 March, 2020, Sam Buchan-Watts delivered a Critical Poetics Research Seminar entitled ‘Try To Be Better’. Read More CP Research Seminar – 26 February On Wednesday 26 February, the CPRG welcomed Rebecca Cullen to give a paper for the Critical Poetics Research Seminar series, entitled... Read More Critical Poetics Research Seminar – 19 February 2020 On 19 February, the CPRG hosted Mathelinda Nabugodi as part of the Critical Poetics Research Seminar series at NTU, where... Read More May Reading Group (2019) – A Dialogue on Love On Weds May 1st, Dr Ruth Charnock (Lincoln) visited NTU to lead a discussion of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s A Dialogue... Read More Writing Skyscapes Exhibition Writing Skyscapes was the culmination of a two-day public writing workshop led by researchers specializing in astronomy and literature from Nottingham... Read More Reading Group – February 2019 On 27th February, Delphine Grass (Lancaster University) lead a discussion of Kenneth Goldsmith’s essay ‘Displacement is the New Translation’. While attempting... Read More Reading Group – January 2019 On 30th January, Lila Matsumoto (University of Nottingham) lead a discussion of Anne Boyer’s essay ‘How to Go From Poetry to Art/ How... Read More Reading Group – October 2018 ‘A New Set of Possibilities’? On Weds 24th October 2018, we discussed Fourth Person Singular by Nuar Alsadir. Nuar Alsadir suggests... Read More Reading Group – June 2018 What does it mean to enter a garden? What is a garden and how should we read (in) one? On Thursday 28... Read More Reading Group – May 2018 On 23 May 2018, we explored the relation between reading and slowness through an experimental, experiential approach. Taking its point... Read More Reading Group – April 2018 On 18 April 2018, we discussed contemporary interpretations of Freud’s ‘Dora’. During the session, led by Iain Spillman (NTU), we... Read More
