Sticking together: collage as a community listening praxis
Sticking together: collage as a community listening praxis Isaac Fraveshi – PhD student, poet, and artist at the Southampton Institute of Arts and Humanities – has worked with Feeling…
How does literary practice allow us to think about the ‘pride in place’ agenda?
How does literary practice allow us to think about the ‘pride in place’ agenda? What can poetry offer to policy makers? Professor Nicky Marsh (University of Southampton) The AHRC-funded Feeling…
Subtle and Simple Surprises: reflections on co-creating a ‘Living Glossary’ for a community of practice.
In this blog Professor Stephanie Jones discusses the process of creating a vocabulary for shaping a community that crosses disciplines and sectors: considered words, she suggests, are vital for…
Practicality and Magic: Mentoring, Poetry, and Community Practice
Professor Will May (University of Southampton) reflects on the stories that poets tell about the people who make them poets. Will’s AHRC Fellowship, Invisible Mentors, explored the role,…
Literature and community
Professor Nicky Marsh (University of Southampton) In this blog Professor Nicky Marsh, from the University of Southampton, introduces March’s theme of ‘communities’. There are as many forms of community as…
A Reading List on Reading.
Professor Ben Davies (University of Southern Denmark) A Reading List on Reading. Much of my recent research focuses on the relations between reading, readers, and time use, both inside and…
‘Death of Reading’?: There’s no real war between print and digital media
Dr JT Welsch (University of York) I keep reading that reading is a dying pastime. Every day, a new study shames our shrinking attention spans, or a professor moans that…
Reading Matters: Middlemarch
Professor Gail Marshall (University of Reading) Reading Matters: Middlemarch The material book I am exceptionally lucky to have on my shelves a first edition of Middlemarch, the very generous…
Two books changed my life.
Dr Rebecca Fisher (English Association) Two books changed my life. As a teenager, I read A. S. Byatt’s The Virgin in the Garden, and something fundamental shifted in the way books…
Really reading
Professor Jennifer Cooke (Loughborough University) We live in what’s called an ‘attention economy’: Insta, YouTube, TikTok and all the other sites want our eyes on them. They want our attention.…