On August 5/6th, I’ll be running a 2-day symposium with my colleagues Dr Katherine Collins (Oxford) and Dr Helen Mort (MMU). This two-day symposium seeks to bring together poets, researchers, researcher-poets and poet-researchers interested in exploring the intersections of poetry and research and to explore the questions we, as members of this growing field of inquiry, should be asking of our practices, our ethics, our outputs, and ourselves. 

Our questions include:

• How do we define the core terms: what is research, what is poetry, what is collaboration, art, creativity, method?
• How do we articulate aesthetic, epistemic, and ethical criteria for this kind of work? Should standards exist and what should they be?
• What is the impact of Impact and other research quality frameworks such as REF on the kind of work that is made and valued?
• What makes an effective, productive, collaboration between individuals and disciplines when some are poetically inclined, and others are research inclined?
• Is poetry a ‘non-extractive’ method of research? How are the risks of colonising and appropriating poetic traditions being articulated and managed?

To send in a paper head here: https://oclw.web.ox.ac.uk/article/it-shame-or-it-water-poetry-and-research-conversation

To register as an attendee head here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/is-it-shame-or-is-it-water-poetry-and-research-in-conversation-tickets-157261524453