A new book, The Midden, edited by me and Jenni Nurmenniemi – in printing process now in Berlin. Drawing on the Frontiers in Retreat 5 year art and ecologies research project. Essays by Emma Itaranta, Jussi Parikka, Antti Salminen, Taru Elfving, Jenni Nurmenniemi and me. Fabulous design by Serg
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Midday in Rye, East Sussex, and it’s started to rain. Late-season tourists are reaching for their waterproofs and heading for indoors, leaving the churchyard that only a few moments ago was packed, a guided tour in full swing. I’ve just noticed the outline of part of a Romanesque doorway, le
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‘Even the poetic world is social’ (Bakhtin, 1981, 300). This time next week, Saturday 23 June, I will be presenting a paper at the Great Writing conference which argues that poetry writing is a socially mediated process. Sue Dymoke and I published the paper in the Journal of Wr...
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Every writer, published or not, takes their first steps into the unknown sometime. Often that moment is lost in the past, a distant memory from school or left to moulder between the covers of an embarrassing teenage diary. As we practise, our prose becomes more polished and those of us using [read more]
