Writing Practice Forum Thursday 8 December: ARCHIVE SPECIAL 📖
Writing Practice Forum
10:00-12:30
8 December, Philip Robinson Library Special Collections – Meet at main library reception
In this session we’ll be looking at materials from the archive of the poetry publisher Bloodaxe Books, which was acquired by the university a few years ago. Northumbria based and international in focus, Bloodaxe publish modernists, Nobel Laureates, works in translation and contemporary poet-artists, like Heather Phillipson and Ahren Warner.
We’ll discuss an excerpt from Susan Howe’s essay on the ‘telepathy’ of archival research and the strange energy that physical manuscripts, notebooks and letters emit in the reverential setting of a library. Through exercises we’ll explore the ways we might ‘activate’ some of the historical material of the archive through our own writing.
Material has been selected from the holdings of individual poets as well as Bloodaxe itself, including Rosemary Tonks and Selima Hill, and archivist Rachel Hawkes will generously be on hand to answer questions.
Places for workshop limited – please add you name to the spreadsheet here. Any issues accessing this, email me: sam.buchan-watts@newcastle.ac.uk
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