Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry

We are looking for writers and academics with an interest in innovative poetry scholarship to contribute book reviews of critical monographs and other scholarly titles on innovative poetry. Get in touch with any questions or find out how to submit on our website: poetry.openlibhums.org

Innovative Poetry Readings in London Writers Forum Workshop is pleased to host this listing of readings, exhibitions, performances, discussions, workshops and courses taking place on London’s innovative poetry scenes. If you wri…

Contemporary Innovative Poetry Research Seminar

Eleanor Careless leads a seminar entitled: Serve your own sentences: Incarceration in the poetry of Anna Mendelssohn.

Wednesday, October 29th, 6pm

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Material Poetics: Drafting, Duration, Form One-day symposium bringing together researchers and practitioners working on process materialities and contemporary poetics.

Material Poetics: Drafting, Duration, Form
November 5th

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CFP: 'Poetry's Environments', University of Leeds, June 2026.

About poetry and the natural environment in relation to the environments in which it is written, experienced, performed, preserved, and studied.

Please submit a proposal! Deadline 5 December.

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You can now read 3 reviews of my The Necessity of Poetics linking from this blogpost : robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2024/10/revi..., and a few of my comments on them.

Book Review: Robert Sheppard, <em>The Necessity of Poetics</em> (2024) Linda Kemp reviews Robert Sheppard, The Necessity of Poetics (2024)

Just published: Linda Kemp's review of Robert Sheppard's The Necessity of Poetics (2024)

'Poetry [...] is shown to be an embodied form of knowledge and meaning-making, one which lives and breathes, indeed has "pulse"'

@robertsheppard.bsky.social

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My academic essay ‘From Beuys to O’Sullivan: an ecofeminist approach to contemporary sculptural poetry’ has just been published by @innovativepoetry.bsky.social! You can download/read/share it: poetry.openlibhums.org/article/id/8... 🖤

From Beuys to O'Sullivan: a feminist approach to contemporary sculptural poetry Using one of my experimental poems as an example, this essay demonstrates how sculptural poetry can stand as a form of resistance as well as a feminist gesture with the potential to shape and heal soc...

hot off the press:

a new creative-critical piece by @heyastranaut.bsky.social

'From Beuys to O'Sullivan: a feminist approach to contemporary sculptural poetry'

feat. Papachristodoulou on her ecofeminist sculptural poems 'human-hive' & 'raining bees' 🐝

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