common: graves, sense – not so common!
Common graves, Abney Park Cemetery
Indeed!
More common or pauper’s graves in the dissenter’s graveyard; they were evicted from proper plots after six months if they couldn’t pay and ended up in these shallow ditches alongside the path. Photo credit: ele
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- Book chapter, ‘Commoning nostalgia: making “Romantic sensibility sustainable” in contemporary poetry’, in Futures Worth Preserving: Cultural Constructions of Nostalgia and Sustainability April 1, 2019On, in order of appearance: Peter Larkin & R. F. Langley; Anne-Lise Francois; J. H. Prynne, Peter Riley & The English Intelligencer; Sean Bonney & Stephen Collis; and Lisa Robertson. … Continue reading →daneltro
- ‘Growing food on the green world: J. H. Prynne’s agro-chemical pastoral in the Vale of Tintern’, article in Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism (Autumn 2018) March 13, 2019Abstract: (to download one of 50 free e-prints go here). This article reads the poetry of J. H. Prynne of the early- to mid-1970s through an ecocritical lens, arguing that … Continue reading →daneltro
- ‘Poetics in Commons’ Symposium & Performances, 22-23 May, CPP Sheffield February 27, 201922-23 May 2019, Centre for Poetry & Poetics, University of Sheffield (Venues TBC) Keynote: Anne Boyer ‘Poetics in Commons’ explores the potential of literature and art to create and reinvent … Continue reading →daneltro
- Centre for Poetry & Poetics Spring Schedule, Sheffield 2019 February 3, 2019 daneltro
- PBC Reading, Gulliver’s NQ (Manchester), Sat 9th Feb (4.30pm) w/ Denise Riley, Ágnes Lehóczky & Gareth Twose January 29, 2019 daneltro
- Poetry & Translation discussion & readings, Fri 1st Feb, Sheffield January 28, 2019 daneltro
- Mexican Democracy January 28, 2019In July 2018, I was part of the UK delegation to observe the Mexican electoral process, organised by the Mexican pro-transparency network RUCD (Red Universitaria y Ciudadana por la Democracia) … Continue reading →daneltro
- ‘Five a Week’ in Blackbox Manifold + review January 24, 2019My long-ish poem, ‘Five a Week’, is out in full in the latest Blackbox Manifold, No. 21 (Winter 2018). As ever, there’s a really good selection of work in the … Continue reading →daneltro
- Reading at Xing the Line 20 Dec (7.30pm) December 10, 2018poetry: xing the line, 20 Dec, 7.30pm. Dan Eltringham : Beth Hopkins & Andrew Spragg : Samantha Walton. I K L E C T I K, ‘Old Paradise Yard’ 20 Carlisle … Continue reading →daneltro
- Trespass! Exhibition at Sheffield Institute of Arts > 22 Dec December 10, 2018Trespass! Exhibition at Sheffield Institute of Arts until 22 December 2018. This exhibition explores the relationship between visual art and text based work on the broad theme of walking in forbidden … Continue reading →daneltro
