Thursday, 7 February 2019 at 6:30 pm – Thursday, 7 February 2019 at 8:00 pm

The Hybridity of Place Writing / Ceri Morgan & Nikolai Duffy

Writing Place: Creative-Critical Conversations 4

Date: Thursday 7th February 2019

Time: 6.30pm

Location: 70 Oxford St

Tickets: FREE - Available on Eventbrite here: https://writing-place4.eventbrite.com 

‘Writing Place: Creative-Critical Conversations’ is a series of six public events organised by the new Centre for Place Writing. In each event, a Manchester Met researcher will be paired with an artist or academic from outside the University to introduce their work and to discuss the relationship between creative and critical approaches to place. Ideas and issues that will be explored during the series include the power and problems of mapping, the representation of post-industrial geographies, and concepts and practices of assemblage.

The fourth event in the series, ‘The Hybridity of Place Writing’, will be held on Thursday, 7 February 2019. Ceri Morgan is a Senior Lecturer in English at Keele University where her research focuses on literary geographies in Québec fiction, place-writing, walking studies, and geohumanities. Her current projects include a critical-creative book provisionally entitled Dérives montréalaises. Nikolai Duffy is a poet, publisher, and Senior Lecturer in American Literature at Manchester Metropolitan University. He is the author of The Little Shed of Various Lamps, Up the Creek, Relative Strangeness: Reading Rosmarie Waldrop, and, as editor, Gap Gardening: The Selected Poems of Rosmarie Waldrop. He is the founding editor of Like This Press, publishing handmade collections of poetry, short stories, and essays. His most recent projects include two hybrid place writing books, A Hut on Ludshott Common, and A Boat to Float on the Flood, about Bardsey Island. Ceri and Nikolai will each present new works of place writing and will discuss hybrid writing, creative-critical geographies, and local imaginaries.

Like This Press: www.likethispress.com 

Ceri Morgan: https://www.keele.ac.uk/english/people/cerimorgan/ 

For further information about further ‘Writing Place’ events, and the new Centre for Place Writing at Manchester Met, please contact Dr David Cooper (Senior Lecturer in English):

0161 247 5409

d.cooper@mmu.ac.uk / @DrDavidCooper