Poetry and Indiscipline
By Sam Buchan-Watts and Lucy Mercer. On 10 May 2024 we held a closed, eight-person symposium in a seminar room at MayDay Rooms entitled ‘Poetry and Indiscipline’. An ‘archive, resource space and safe haven for social movements, experimental and marginal...
Creative Writing as Research: an Annotated Bibliography
By Gabriel Flynn. The emergence of PhD programs in creative writing poses questions about the nature of writing, research, and knowledge, some of which have complex histories that long predate the disciplines of creative writing and English Literature. This bibliography is aimed primarily at those who are interested in pursuing a PhD in creative writing and wishing to gain some knowledge of how such a possibility came about and find answers to some of the questions it raises.
Radical Continuum: on the Relationship Between the Creative and the Critical
By Gregory Leadbetter. To contemplate afresh the relation between the ‘creative’ and the ‘critical’ is to recognise a long conventional – and still highly influential – contrast between these terms within the history of criticism...
A Four and a Half Minute Manifesto for the Creative Critical
A manifesto for the creative critical by Emily Orley and Katja Hilevaara
The Function of Criticism at the Present Time
By Robert Hampson. A talk given at the summit event 'On the Creative-Critical' held on 1 June 2019 in Norwich and organised by the University of East Anglia and the Institute of English Studies.