JR Carpenter

J. R. Carpenter is an artist, writer, and researcher working on questions of place, displacement, colonialism, and climate across performance, print, and digital media. Her digital poem The Gathering Cloud won the New Media Writing Prize 2016. Her debut poetry collection An Ocean of Static (Penned in the Margins) was highly commended for the Forward Prize 2019. Her hybrid print-digital project This is a Picture of Wind (Longbarrow Press) was listed in The Guardian’s best poetry books 2020 and featured in the Digital Storytelling exhibition at the British Library (London 2023). Her AR poetry project This is Not a Good Sign, created in collaboration with Tomo Kihara, has been exhibited at Now Play This (London 2020), Everything Will Be Fine (Berlin 2021), Digital Design Weekend at the V&A (London 2021), and the Sea Art Festival in Busan, South Korea (2023). Her digital poetry and performance project An Island of Sound, created in collaboration with Jules Rawlinson, has been performed at Inspace (Edinburgh 2022), the British Library (London 2023), SpokenWeb (Edmonton, Canada 2023), and Teatro Académico de Gil Vicente (Coimbra, Portugal 2023). Her most recent poetry chapbook, City of Marvels (Broken Sleep Books 2023) is based on a limited-edition letterpress portfolio called Coney Street Life: A History of Right Now, written and printed during her time as writer in Residence with the Street Life project, University of York, 2022. Her most recent poetry collection Le plaisir de la côte / The Pleasure of the Coast (Pamenar Press 2023) is based on a bilingual digital poetry project commissioned by Université Paris 8 in partnership with the Archives Nationales in Paris.