Five Bodies Workshop: James Goodwin
'On Lysis'
Join us for a series of free monthly workshops exploring creative-critical practice, hybrid methodologies and experimental thinking.
Organised in collaboration with the Critical Poetics research group based at Nottingham Trent University, and featuring international guest speakers, the Five Bodies workshops provide a new platform for debate and collaboration for those interested in exploring the relationship between creative and critical writing.
Led by poet James Goodwin, this creative-critical workshop hopes to cultivate a broad exchange of ideas around the term 'lysis'. Lysis, from the Greek word to loosen or unbind, refers to the breakdown of cell membranes, as well as the abatement of acute disease symptoms; it also constitutes the title of Plato’s early dialogue, ‘Lysis, or Friendship’, and it is this text that will provide our point of departure. By positioning ‘Lysis’ and lysis in relation to Jacques Derrida’s notion of writing as a pharmakon (remedy, poison, scapegoat), readings include Gwendolyn Brook’s short 1969 broadside, 'Riot', and D. S. Marriott’s ‘Preface: 16 Bars’ and ‘Back In The Ends (After Kano)’. Thinking through Fred Moten’s remark that the ‘lyric disturbs and augments lysis’, Goodwin engages both creatively and critically with/in a philopoetics of lysis as a way of reading as writing that allows us, in the spirit of C2, to ‘experimentalise’ with the conditions of our being.
Our open call for the 2020-21 academic years is now closed. Join our Five Bodies monthly poetry series, where unexpected ideas, experimental drifts and multiple voices explore perceiving, sensing, feeling and knowing as knowledge-making practices.
James Goodwin is a poet undertaking a PhD in English and Humanities at Birkbeck, University of London with a thesis on the blacksociopoetics of marronage, breath, sacrality and emanation. His pamphlet, aspects caught in the headspace we’re in: composition for friends, is forthcoming with Face Press; and his debut book, Fleshed Out For All The Corners Of The Slip, is forthcoming with the87press. His creative and critical work has appeared in online and print publications such as Intercapillary Space, Datableed, No Prizes, the Berkeley Poetry Review, earthbound press, and Poetry Wales, and is forthcoming with Granta Magazine and Hythe.
Event:
Five Bodies Workshop: James GoodwinDates:
9 Dec 2020, 5.30pm–7.30pmCurators:
Sofia Lemos and Dr. Sarah Jackson, with Jack Thacker
Supported by:
