I’ve spent a late snowy afternoon online today in the good company of Hafsah Aneela Bashir, Yomi Sode and Anthony Joseph, the Jerwood Compton Poetry Fellows 2019-20.
Category: poetry writing
Poetry Dispatches from 2020
Caroline’s Bird’s The Air Year was without doubt this year’s most breath-taking read. The sweep and swirl of her fifth … More
Translating Kazakh poetry
Last week I participated in a collaborative Kazakh poetry translation workshop run by the Poetry Translation Centre. The evening was great fun and I learned a good deal about Kazakh language and poetry.
Science and Poetry: Atomic poems
Last week I participated in a fascinating online event to celebrate Ada Lovelace Day 2020. It was organised by Junction … More
Dollies: an animation by Carina Barber
For this final example of design work based on my poems by NTU Graphic Design students, I have chosen an … More
Closed World
I wrote Closed World many years ago as a result of playing around with ideas about found texts and revisiting … More
A Call Out for Foyle Young Poets
We hope that Foyle Young Poet Award winners and highly commended poets from 2012 – 2019 will be interested in … More
New Poetry Research in 2020
As this new decade begins I am excited to start a new job as an Associate Professor at Nottingham Trent … More