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- Submitting institution
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Loughborough University
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 1809
- Type
- T - Other
- DOI
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- Location
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- Brief description of type
- Creative Writing: Poetry/visual art
- Open access status
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- Month
- October
- Year
- 2017
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This output is a complex piece of research into contemporary poetics, intermedia and photo-poetic practice and resulted from an extended process of creative investigation over three years. It involved primary photographic research and practice in eight European countries and visits to important architectural sites such as the Villa la Roche (Paris). One of the poems alone (‘Come, Goddard, Come’) required in-depth literary research and archival work in the Bloodaxe Poetry Archive and the National Poetry Library to produce a 120 line poem collaged from the citations of 100 poets whose work has been published since the advent of European Modernism.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- This practice-led research contributes to the fields of photopoetics, intermedia literature and contemporary poetry practice. It aimed to creatively explore the potential for poem and photograph to produce both synchronous and dialogic explorations of a defined intellectual and aesthetic terrain. The output responds to three research questions:
How can a productive transmedia dialogue be created between poem and photograph?
How can the poem and photograph best explore urban landscape and memory as sites of political trauma and the ethical complexities of contemporary sociality?
How can the poetic text and photograph as forms of social and political witness open up space for thinking about the cultural document as an affective event?
The research process incorporated contextual and critical research, iterative writing and dialectical transmedia practice. This involved writing in response to critical research and to the production of images, allowing this writing to inform the editing of those images, and then allowing the process of editing to re-inform new iterations of texts, in terms of both form and content.
Extracts have also been disseminated through US and UK journals including Granta, Poetry (Chicago), Poetry Review and Ploughshares. The intermedia format of the book was presented as the British Council’s contribution to an EU National Institute of Cultures' ‘European Literary Walk’ (Athens, 2017), whilst the book was awarded a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, shortlisted for the Roehampton Poetry Prize and resulted in an Arts Council England ‘Developing Your Creative Practice’ Award. Selections have, or are currently being translated, into Greek, Polish, Ukrainian and Serbian, as well as being set to music by Mercury Prize Winning, and Grammy Nominated, artists.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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