We are looking for writers and academics with an interest in innovative poetry scholarship to contribute book reviews of critical monographs and other scholarly titles on innovative poetry. Get in touch with any questions or find out how to submit on our website: poetry.openlibhums.org

Contemporary Innovative Poetry Research Seminar Eleanor Careless leads a seminar entitled: Serve your own sentences: Incarceration in the poetry of Anna Mendelssohn. Wednesday, October 29th, 6pm Email for Zoom link writersforumworkshop.uk/innovative-p...

Material Poetics: Drafting, Duration, Form November 5th www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/material-p...

CFP: 'Poetry's Environments', University of Leeds, June 2026. About poetry and the natural environment in relation to the environments in which it is written, experienced, performed, preserved, and studied. Please submit a proposal! Deadline 5 December. conferences.leeds.ac.uk/poetryenviro...

You can now read 3 reviews of my The Necessity of Poetics linking from this blogpost : robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2024/10/revi..., and a few of my comments on them.

Just published: Linda Kemp's review of Robert Sheppard's The Necessity of Poetics (2024) 'Poetry [...] is shown to be an embodied form of knowledge and meaning-making, one which lives and breathes, indeed has "pulse"' @robertsheppard.bsky.social poetry.openlibhums.org/article/id/1...

My academic essay ‘From Beuys to O’Sullivan: an ecofeminist approach to contemporary sculptural poetry’ has just been published by @innovativepoetry.bsky.social! You can download/read/share it: poetry.openlibhums.org/article/id/8... 🖤

hot off the press: a new creative-critical piece by @heyastranaut.bsky.social 'From Beuys to O'Sullivan: a feminist approach to contemporary sculptural poetry' feat. Papachristodoulou on her ecofeminist sculptural poems 'human-hive' & 'raining bees' 🐝 poetry.openlibhums.org/article/id/8...