Summary of our research

Research summary

  • May to June 2021

The project invited international artists to explore their creative and critical responses to place.

The free, online series was hosted by the Centre for Place Writing and included:

  • ‘Renewing Collective Poetic Practices’: Caroline Bergvall reflecting on her multi-media practices and life during lockdown
  • ‘Topo-Poetics’: Tim Cresswell, the Centre’s Visiting Professor of Place Writing, exploring his work as both a poet and academic geographer
  • ‘Placing the Irreplaceable’: the award-winning nature writer, Julian Hoffman, celebrating writing as activism
  • ‘Beyond Exact Measurements’: visual artist, educator and writer, Annalee Davis, sharing her hybrid practice focusing on a post-plantation site in Barbados
  • ‘What is Place Writing Now?’: a final event in which three leading writers – Natasha Carthew, Sukhdev Sandhu and Anita Sethi, debated the current literary scene

The ‘What is Place Writing Now?’ series was part of the 2021 RISE programme: an award-winning scheme which lets students develop outside the framework of their core degrees. This event helped students develop creative and critical thinking in their approach to research and writing. 

Research outputs

There is a recording of each event available online on mmutube.

Research team

Research team

The series of free events featured leading writers and artists from around the world in conversation with members of the Centre for Place Writing.

Contributors