The Poetics & Translingualism Research Cluster

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The Poetics & Translingualism Research Cluster coordinates and promotes the reading, writing, and critical exploration of contemporary poetics and translingualism. It highlights relevant events and resources within and beyond the University of Lincoln, and provides a regular forum and seeks to stimulate debate, collaboration, and innovation among poets, writers, translingualists, translators, critics, and theorists linked to the University of Lincoln. The Research Cluster sponsors and brings together activity in readings, workshops, exhibitions, lectures, publications, research projects, seminars, and symposia in and around the University of Lincoln. Many events, such as our guest speakers and visiting poets and writers series, are open to the public. 

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Recent works by members of the group––articles, books, essays, interviews, reviews, translations, and original creative texts––have appeared or are forthcoming with various publishers and in national and international journals, magazines, and anthologies, including Bombay Gin, Broken Sleep Books, Conjunctions, edition taberna kritika, Evergreen Review, Guernica Magazine, Harper's Magazine, Hotel, Litro, Los Angeles Review of Books, New Directions, Plume, Poetry International, Poetry London, The Normal School, The Rialto, Seagull Books, The Stinging Fly, Versal, Verse Daily, Wasafiri, Wretched Strangers, and 3:AM Magazine. 

 

Our members also contribute to a number of humanitarian projects, including the Rwanda Refugee Poetry Project at the University of Lincoln, the International Refugee Poetry Network, and the Justice Arts and Migration Network. In addition, members serve as editors, readers, and curators for the following academic and literary publications/publishers as well as arts/literary organisations: Black Lawrence Press, MAYDAY Magazine, SO Festival, tr. review of translations, and The Lincoln Review.          

 

We encourage all students, staff, and members of the wider community to learn more about our research and activities by attending our public events.

 

For more information, please get in touch with Daniele Pantano or Sherezade García Rangel. 

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INFORMATION REGARDING OUR CLUSTER MEETINGS

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This is a space for respite, practitioner-first collaboration, support, and inspiration open to practitioners and researchers who are exploring the poetics of their work and navigating spaces of multiple languages and experiences through their research and practice. 

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We embrace an iterative approach of coming together which responds to the needs of our practice. We aim to discover ways in which we can be neuroinclusive and seek to adapt to how we want to work and collaborate together. For this, we provide iterative ways of checking in, enabling us to discuss our work and gain support across the year led by our practitioners and researchers. Instead of establishing a structure that presupposes how we need to work, we are responsive to the ways in which we want to seek, provide, and gain support from one another as we research and create.

 

In our cluster, these are points from which we begin:

• Supporting idea generation

• Embracing work in progress

• Providing guidance on research and practice

• Opening space for multilanguage, global majorities, diverse experiences work

• Enabling emerging practitioners and researchers to touch base and open conversations at any stage of their practice

 

We create warm spaces for discussion of work in progress once per semester, where practitioners and researchers in different stages can come together and negotiate their work where it is and discuss what they’re seeking within it. Our next open meeting is in November (dates tbc).

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Does this resonate with how you’d like to practice, research, gain, and provide support and be connected? If so, and if you would like to be included, please reach out to Shere to join our mail list. 

 

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Research Cluster Leads and Convenors

Daniele Pantano

(Associate Professor, Programme Leader MA Creative Writing, Co-Director MFA Creative Writing & Publishing)

 

Dr. Sherezade García Rangel

(Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing)

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Assistant Convenor

Alison Smith

(PhD Creative Writing student)

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Member List

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Jade King

(Teaching Fellow in Creative Writing)

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Dr. Amy Lilwall

(Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing, Co-Director MFA Creative Writing & Publishing)

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Robert Paul Weston

(Lecturer in Creative Writing)

 

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