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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- Poetics in Commons evening readings & performances May 16, 2019 daneltro
- Poetics in Commons: Symposium & Performances May 15, 2019Poetics in Commons: Symposium & Readings (University of Sheffield 22-23 May 2019, Centre for Poetry & Poetics and Hallam Guild). Organised by Sarah Bernstein & Dan Eltringham. The conference explores … Continue reading →daneltro
- 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
