Poetry: Five Bodies
Inspired by moments of unknowingness, invention and imagination, Five Bodies brings together some of the most outstanding British and international poets to share experiences of contemporary poetry.
The series welcomes unexpected ideas, experimental drifts and multiple voices following a long-standing tradition in poetry writing that melds perceiving, sensing, feeling and knowing as knowledge-making practices. Five Bodies asks how language invites communion with the sensorial, social, and political bodies and considers ways of relating to one another in the digital space.
With contributions by Nottingham-based poets, Sarah Jackson, Linda Kemp, Lila Matsumoto and Vicky Sparrow, along with new readings by Victoria Adukwei Bulley, J. R. Carpenter, Jesse Darling, Rowan Evans, James Goodwin, Johanna Hedva, Bhanu Kapil, Donika Kelly, Maureen M. Mclane, Sandeep Parmar, Nisha Ramayya, Ariana Reines, Himali Singh Soin and Simone White.
Five Bodies is collaboratively developed with the Critical Poetics research group at Nottingham Trent University. For those interested in learning more about the poets, creative-critical engagement, hybrid methodologies and experimental thinking, join the Five Bodies workshops.
Online. Free. This event will be livestreamed on Youtube and include real-time transcription by Otter.ai.
Programme
6.30-7pm: Donika Kelly
7-7.20pm: James Goodwin
7.20-7.40pm: Sandeep Parmar
7.45-8.30pm: Dialogue
Chair: Linda Kemp
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.
Donika Kelly is the author of the chapbook Aviarium (fivehundred places) and the full-length collections The Renunciations (forthcoming, Graywolf Press) and Bestiary (Graywolf Press), winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize, a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Poetry, and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. She is a Cave Canem graduate fellow and member of the collective Poets at the End of the World. She is an Assistant Professor at the University of Iowa, where she teaches creative writing.
Linda Kemp is a Research Fellow in Social Work, Care and Community at Nottingham Trent University. Kemp’s research focuses on poetry, poetic language, and collaborative creative practices with a specific interest on critical poetics. Adopting a cross-disciplinary stance to language, power, and relationships between social questions, political commitment, and social history, their work encompasses the creative and critical to include poetry, creative-critical writing, collaboration, performance and scholarly publications.
Sandeep Parmar is a poet and scholar born in Nottingham. Parmar is the author of the poetry collections The Marble Orchard (2012) and Eidolon (2017), which won a Ledbury Forte Prize for Best Second Collection. With James Byrne, she collaborated on the chapbook Myth of the Savage Tribes, Myth of Civilised Nations (2014). Parmar’s scholarship focuses on British and American Modernism, particularly women’s autobiographical writing by lesser-known writers such as Hope Mirrlees, Nancy Cunard, and Mina Loy. Parmar is a BBC New Generation Thinker and codirector of Liverpool’s Centre for New and International Writing. She is currently a professor of English literature at the University of Liverpool.
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