Research: What is place writing now?
A series of major events in which leading artists from around the world discussed their creative and critical approaches to writing place now.
Summary of our research
Research summary
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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
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Dr David Cooper
Senior Lecturer & Co-Director of the Centre for Place Writing
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Dr Paul Evans
Senior Lecturer
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Dr Rachel Lichtenstein
Reader in English
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Professor Jean Sprackland
Professor of Creative Writing
Contact information
Contact us
For general enquiries about our Place Writing research theme, you can contact its lead Dr David Cooper.