What is the Creative Critical?: Launch Event

On September 24th, 2022, a day-long event was held at the School of Advanced Studies at UCL to launch the creativecritical.net website. Members of the editorial board were invited to reflect on the question ‘What is the relation between the creative and the critical? In this tab, you will find some of their responses to that prompt.

Robert Hampson

What is the relation between the creative and the critical? What is the critical force of the creative?   I want to start with a story.   About twenty years ago I had a research student working on recent and contemporary poetry, looking at the work of poets...

Sam Buchan-Watts

[What is the relation between the creative and the critical? Told through an example from your own work.]   The Creative-Critical Constructed Space While I was writing – what I then referred to as a ‘straight English Literature’ PhD on the poetry of W. S. Graham,...

Assignment 13 – Sense and Nonsense

  Exercises   Note: for “morkle” and “frannis” in the following exercises, substitute two “nonsense” words of your own devising. Use a different pair for each part of the assignment, if you like. 1. The following phrase in...