Thomas Karshan

  ‘How Should One Read a Book?’ My title question apes that of a talk Virginia Woolf first gave at a girls’ school in 1926: To read a book well, one should read it as if one were writing it. Begin not by sitting on the bench amid the judges but by standing in the...

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,...