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Digital Poetics 2.10: 6 shapes by Petero Kalulé (petals)
A new sound-piece: piano, bells, shakuhachi, glockenspiel, cello, small gong
Digital Poetics 2.9 The Conditions I Went Down On by Colin Leemarshall
This essay situates Joe Luna's poem Development Hell both within and outside of the tradition of katabasis, in the process positing a new, 'cacobatic' literary mode
Digital Poetics #35 King's College London Creative Writing Workshop
Work produced as part of a workshop held by Kashif Sharma-Patel and Azad Ashim Sharma at King's College London.
Digital Poetics #34: University of Nottingham Student Showcase 2021
A selection of prose and poetry pieces from Creative Writing MA Students at the University of Nottingham.
Digital Poetics #33 A Thousand Times Before by Stu Watson
The poem works to personalise the more abstracted ruminations on cultures of violence and domination that circulate through the collection Communicatingroups by Stu Watson.
Digital Poetics #32: 4 Poems by Hatty Nestor
Hatty Nestor's poems are from a longer book that explores suspended temporal states, such as chronic pain, immunity, guilt, carceral logic and economies of time, the nature of confessing, and institutional surveillance.
Digital Poetics #31 The Cantona Editorial: Azad Ashim Sharma
In this long-read, Azad Ashim Sharma explores race, avant-gardism, and methodologies of literary criticism.
Digital Poetics: 3 Poems by Carlos Mauricio Rojas
3 poems from Carlos Mauricio Rojas that talk about themes of migration, queer and trans existence, and multicultural heritage.
Digital Poetics #29 Yes, I Am A Destroyer (Extract) by Mira Mattar w/ Essay from Kashif Sharma-Patel
An extract from Mira Mattar's astonishing novel 'Yes, I Am A Destroyer' with a response from Kashif Sharma-Patel.
Digital Poetics #28 Nothing Preacher by Tim Atkins
From a series of film-poems on exile, resistance & creation. Filmed in Denver in Nov 2019 during an artist's residency at BMoCA.
Digital Poetics #27 Lymbs and Delirium: Chapter 2 by Zachary Knowland-Barker
Zach's next chapter of his long poem Lymbs and Delirium is an ambient exploration of ritual & bodies; broken bodies, transmuting bodies, bodies in trance, dance and ecstasy.
Digital Poetics #26 Aesthetics and Time Constraints: Marie Buck
Marie Buck's essay is a reply, critique and contextualisation of Joe Luna's 'Writing for Freedom', published last week on the Hythe.
Digital Poetics #25 Writing for Freedom: Joe Luna
Joe Luna considers the claims made for and on behalf of poetry by the radical Bay Area press, Commune Editions.
Marx After Growth #4 The Class Relation, Sean O'Brien
Final lecture talking about the class relation: what it is, how its reproduced, and how the dynamics of its reproduction have important implications for how we conceive of the production of gender, the ascription of race, and the changing horizons of cycles of struggle.
Digital Poetics #24 side with the immanent vex: prologue by James Goodwin
After the taser shooting of Desmond Ziggy Mombeyarara, 'side with the immanent vex' is a dysorderly attempt to situate the intense register of his resistant, resounding protest in the musicality of a vexed syntax and frayed grammar.
Digital Poetics #23 x F(r)ictions: Water Series: 2 by Morisha Moodley
A poetic film by Morisha Moodley on water and motion, drawing on spirituality and embodiment. This film is part of an ongoing series.
Digital Poetics #21: BEAST: Venus As A Soft Boi Dub by Sascha Akhtar w/ Intro by Ghazal Mosadeq
Oral poetry creating ‘neu’ language through lived experience with ancient classical Sufi metaphysical tropes.
Digital Poetics #20 x F(r)ictions: A field of islands by Edmund Hardy
Inspired by atmospheric adventure games such as Myst, and a poem by Édouard Glissant of the same name, this is a short film which starts with the desire to undo pain and constriction by finding 'negative islands' from which the world might be unmade.
Digital Poetics #16 A Basket Woven of One’s Own Hair: Nisha Ramayya
This poem splays the hokey kokey across an echolalic ars poetica. Don your shell and dive into a network of spatial explorations!
Digital Poetics #14 leaf person: Callie Gardner
a poem about wanting to be outside when you have to be inside, the difference between reading and standing in a forest, and turning the page.