My poem experiment (plus essay) is up at Creative Critical, check it out!!

Creative Critical@creativecritical.bsky.social · 2mo ago

'No, there was something in the poetry itself, something that I was unable to simply dismiss as nostalgic white-nationalist kitsch-mongering, something bittersweet and strange that seemed to rumble away beneath the surface of the text.' New on our website: @ajbwells.bsky.social on Banjo Paterson

What’s the best thing you’ve ever read about literary translation / literature in translation? Can be general, specific, theoretical, pragmatic whatever, any combination of languages. I’m writing a piece about the ones that have stayed with me but curious which have been important for others too.

I wrote a little essay – and then some experimental poems – about Banjo Paterson, the terrible Australian poet I somehow can't get out of my head

Creative Critical@creativecritical.bsky.social · 2mo ago

'No, there was something in the poetry itself, something that I was unable to simply dismiss as nostalgic white-nationalist kitsch-mongering, something bittersweet and strange that seemed to rumble away beneath the surface of the text.' New on our website: @ajbwells.bsky.social on Banjo Paterson

Very proud to be publishing @ajbwells.bsky.social's ingenious piece on Banjo Paterson, 'the best-known and least-liked poet in Australia'. Please read and share widely!

Creative Critical@creativecritical.bsky.social · 2mo ago

'No, there was something in the poetry itself, something that I was unable to simply dismiss as nostalgic white-nationalist kitsch-mongering, something bittersweet and strange that seemed to rumble away beneath the surface of the text.' New on our website: @ajbwells.bsky.social on Banjo Paterson

'No, there was something in the poetry itself, something that I was unable to simply dismiss as nostalgic white-nationalist kitsch-mongering, something bittersweet and strange that seemed to rumble away beneath the surface of the text.' New on our website: @ajbwells.bsky.social on Banjo Paterson

Overflowed earth: Versions against Banjo Paterson - Creative-Critical

By Alexander Wells. A.B. ‘Banjo’ Paterson (1864–1941) is probably the best-known and least-liked poet in Australia. His bush ballads, as they are called, still get inflicted on Australian school stude...

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'Any free time should have been spent on publishable work that might improve my prospects. But I was exhausted that evening. I idly flipped through Auden, paused on the poem ‘Lullaby’, and picked up a dusty guitar with my other hand.' New on our website: J.T. Welsch on setting poems to music.

Strange Conversations: Musical Poem Settings as Creative-Critical Practice - Creative-Critical

Might the first-person critical-creative voice be a marker not of identification with one’s subject, nor of the collapsing of critical distance, but rather a different kind of creative act that afford...

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'Any free time should have been spent on publishable work that might improve my prospects. But I was exhausted that evening. I idly flipped through Auden, paused on the poem ‘Lullaby’, and picked up a dusty guitar with my other hand.' New on our website: J.T. Welsch on setting poems to music.

Strange Conversations: Musical Poem Settings as Creative-Critical Practice - Creative-Critical

Might the first-person critical-creative voice be a marker not of identification with one’s subject, nor of the collapsing of critical distance, but rather a different kind of creative act that afford...

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Today I have written about the delights of J. H. Prynne, the grand old Cantabrigian late modernist who died recently. (And a bit about his close contemporary, Geoffrey Hill.)

Bank on the grammar flowing: on Prynne's music

Was Prynne better than Hill?

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This is a great opportunity to join our school as a postdoc, and to work on m'colleague Tommy Karshan's AHRC-funded project 'Beyond the Essay: Creative-Critical Teaching'. Spread the word, and apply! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRJ527/s...

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Resharing this essay I wrote for @creativecritical.bsky.social. When I wrote it, I thought it was a reflection on the past. I now see it was a guide to my future. creativecritical.net/why-im-no-lo...

Why I'm No Longer a Proper Academic - Creative-Critical

By Irina Dumitrescu. A talk given at the Creative Critical launch event at UCL's Institute for Advanced Studies in September 2022.

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#EnglishCreates: Futures Today, Dr JT Welsch (University of York) re-examines the so-called 'death of reading': 'Like most clickbait, these rants rest on a false opposition. There’s no real war between print and digital media.' universityenglish.ac.uk/death-of-rea... #EnglishStudies

Love the glimpse into the beautiful mind that notated this used copy of Moby Dick I got

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creativecritical.net is open for submissions! Please send your > essays, poems, stories, translations > reflections on the relationship between creative and critical practice > course materials or syllabi that incorporate creative work into critical teaching to editors@creativecritical.net

“Sustainable, infinite, inspiring,” Nicholas Royle called A Personal Anthology. Tomorrow’s edition, with a dozen handpicked short story recommendations, comes courtesy of guest editor Tim MacGabhann. Sign up below, or RT if you already subscribe! apersonalanthology.substack.com/about

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A weekly guest-editor picks and introduces a personal anthology of twelve favourite short stories. Click to read A Personal Anthology, by Jonathan Gibbs, a Substack publication with thousands of subsc...

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I wrote about writing about a long ago trip to Faslane Peace Camp, very happy to see it published today by the excellent @minorliteratures.bsky.social. Read on desktop because the formatting is important!

minor literature[s]@minorliteratures.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Faslane — @gabrielflynn.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2025/10/23/f...

This was a fantastic colloquium and it’s great to see all the materials & keynote up on Creative Critical dot net! Check it out 👇

Creative Critical@creativecritical.bsky.social · last yr.

New on our website: What Is Creative Criticism? A Field Report on a Colloquium at Oxford, hosted by Joe Moshenska and Iris Pearson and with a keynote by Mary Capello.

“Every man who plays with literature at all must be ambitious to succeed in some form of art that may be called 'creative,' as distinct from critical—a distinction which, since Arnold taught us our lesson, we know does not exist. ” Macy's nascent Creative-criticsm @creativecritical.bsky.social

Tim Beasley-Murray@timb-m.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Quoted in John Albert Macy's The Critical Game, 1922. A curious book that I wish I had know about when playing my own Critical Games.

If anyone on here has received an RSL Literature Matter Award and would be up for sharing their application, I'd be v grateful!

Published today! My book on play and seriousness. “… explodes all academic frames and expectations.” Emmanuel Carrère @manchesterup.bsky.social manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526177766/

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Critical games - Browse and buy the eBook edition of Critical games by Tim Beasley-Murray

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New on our website: What Is Creative Criticism? A Field Report on a Colloquium at Oxford, hosted by Joe Moshenska and Iris Pearson and with a keynote by Mary Capello.

What is Creative Criticism? - A Field Report on a Colloquium: Oxford, June 2024 - Creative-Critical

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“audacious, polemical, essential” *Fair: The Life-Art of Translation* got a dream review in The Observer New Review today !!! Out Friday from @prototypepubs.bsky.social

New on our website: @victoriamoul.bsky.social writes about 'The Role of Verse Paraphrase in Early Modern Education and Literary Culture'

An Historical Model for Creative-Critical Practice - Creative-Critical

The Role of Verse Paraphrase in Early Modern Education and Literary Culture By Victoria Moul

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So good! Saving this…

Creative Critical@creativecritical.bsky.social · last yr.

New on our website: @victoriamoul.bsky.social writes about 'The Role of Verse Paraphrase in Early Modern Education and Literary Culture'

Just one more day to submit for Tolka Issue Ten. Send us your non-fiction, memoir, essays, autofiction, and anything that falls in between. Submissions close midnight, Wednesday 21 May.

New on our website: @victoriamoul.bsky.social writes about 'The Role of Verse Paraphrase in Early Modern Education and Literary Culture'

An Historical Model for Creative-Critical Practice - Creative-Critical

The Role of Verse Paraphrase in Early Modern Education and Literary Culture By Victoria Moul

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One such haunted poet is David Miller, whose 'Then and Here: A meditation on Gérard de Nerval' we published in 2022...

The Dark Path / There and Here - Creative-Critical

By David Miller with an introduction by Matt Martin.The UK poetry scene has lately become increasingly interested in interdisciplinary modes like creative criticism. The time seems right for a reminde...

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Jeremy Noel-Tod@jntod.bsky.social · last yr.

Gérard de Nerval wrote a poem that has haunted other poets — I tried to understand its ghostly power here someflowerssoon.substack.com/p/at-the-abo...