Poetic form is an obstacle to children who are beginning to write poetry. Teachers can help by introducing children to variety of poetic forms that can be used to shape experience and provide a stimulus for writing. Explore more: https://clpe.org.uk/research/poetry-primary-schools-what-we-know-works
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Very happy to share that my article on American short fiction and Covid-19 is now available online, and it’s open access!
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In October, the upcoming PGR-led conference, Dark Enchantments: Gothic Folklore and the Monstrous Fairy-Tale, will be held at the University of Sheffield. Interested in getting involved? Follow the QR code and send us your abstracts by the end of July! 🦇👻
(Risen from the🪦 with a new QR code).
Breaking the mould: A social mobility journey through the arts and humanities.
Great article @englishassociation.bsky.social
'However, the opportunity to pursue a humanities postgraduate degree without guilt is invaluable.'
New video!
Watch here: youtu.be/ZoGLxK8iwZU
At our May 2026 Showcase, spoken word artist Jasmine Gardosi shared this poem about restriction on speech using restricted speech.
Find out more about Jasmine's work at www.jasminegardosi.com
Thanks to Creative Scotland for supporting our work.
Innovation Fellowships 2026-27 – Route B: Policy-led is now open for applications. This call will enable researchers to work with a policy partner for 12 months. Find out more: https://bit.ly/3S0rNEg
The puppet Venus & Adonis (first saw it 2004) is still the most heavenly thing 💕One more performance in Cambridge tonight, Oxford next week. GO! an hour of love, lust, horses, a terrifying boar, an adorable hare, & Shakespeare's great poem read by the inimitable Simon Russell Beale, dir. Greg Doran.
This article investigates how the American short story responded to the Covid-19 pandemic. It shows how several authors turned to an aesthetic that Barbara Claire Freeman defined in 1995 as the “fe...
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2026 marks the centenary of Hugh MacDiarmid’s “A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle”. For #GiesAScotsPoemDay @brambrella.bsky.social invited some of the standard-bearers of present-day Scots poetry to compose new work responding to MacDiarmid & his legacy
www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/gies-a-scots...
"Illustrations, diagrams, and other non-topographical features on maps from the European Middle Ages and the Renaissance weren’t mere “decoration”, as old-fashioned map historians insist; they were part of what maps were for."
Latest newsletter: medieval maps!
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This looks like a tremendous event, on labouring-class poetry, in Manchester, this Saturday.
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This year’s Gies a Scots Poem Day is something special. 2026 marks the centenary of Hugh MacDiarmid’s A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle — a foundational work for contemporary poetry in Scots, and a poe...
✍️ “I was working-class and received free school meals; so it seemed entirely reasonable — unquestionable, even — that I should pursue a financially lucrative career.”
Our alum, Molly, writes a guest blog about her journey on Social Mobility Day ⤵️
Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her)
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Our alum, Molly, on the need to broaden our conception of social mobility.
A small number of tickets are remaining for our annual lecture this Saturday in Manchester at the John Rylands Library. Book your tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/annual-joh...
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Professor John Goodridge will deliver a talk on working class writers, 'Reading by glow worm: the struggles of labouring-class poets'
