Smeaton300: Poems on Roots and Journeys
Throughout 2023, the University of Leeds Poetry Centre has participated in Smeaton300. It has been a real pleasure working with poet Rachel Bower who delivered...
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Leeds’s Literary Legacy: the Brotherton Poetry Prize 2020/2021
The University of Leeds has a long and notable history of engagement with poetry through the Gregory Fellowships, its members of staff, and its students....
Past, Present and Poetry: A Celebration of Jon Glover
To mark the release of Birdsong on Mars, Jon Glover’s latest poetry collection, Poetry Intern Steph Bennett explores his impact on poetry at Leeds through...
Kimberly Campanello: Unbooking Poetry
Unbooking poetry does not mean poetry is cancelled. In my previous blog, Unboxing Poetry, I talked about poetry-objects, citing examples of work that foreground...
Kimberly Campanello: Unboxing Poetry
Much has been made of the fact that the word ‘poem’ comes from the Greek poíēma, a ‘thing made’. As such, poets are makers of...
Emma Trott: Poetry by Design
The exhibition Poetry By Design, held in the Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery (part of Leeds University Library Galleries) from 10th June – 23rd August 2019,...
Simon Armitage: My First Laureate Poem
Conquistadors In this afterthought he’s just turned six, the astronaut in him doing his damnedest to coincide the moon landing with his first...
Nick Thurston: The Joys of Being Undone
I'm midway through the second of two great new books about what might be called 'under-finished' forms of literature. When we call food 'under-cooked' it's...
Jason Allen-Paisant: Reading Aimé Césaire for the Ecological Crisis
I heard a Black female poet make the remark recently: “People read 'trees’, ‘rocks’, ‘minerals’, and so on in poetry written by African diaspora writers,...
Vahni Capildeo: Reflections on travel, reviewing poetry and Zaffar Kunial
“Good morning, neighbour!” An old-fashioned greeting, shouted by two repair workers over the dilapidated wall of a government-owned house in Trinidad as I unthinkably walked,...