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.
Introductory Talk for Launch of the Creative-Critical Website
1. Welcome to everyone. I am Gabriel Flynn and I’m Thomas Karshan, and we’re the founding editors of the new website creativecritical.net for which this is the launch event. We’re delighted to see so many people here and to welcome the various members of the...
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...
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...
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....