Project News

Following the two-day academic conference, ‘All Borders Blur: Mapping Intersections and Genre-Crossings in UK Spoken-Word Poetries since 1965’ at Queen Mary University of London in partnership with the University of Vienna (11-12 November 2023), Poetry Off the Page is pleased to announce the launch of a ‘Call for Submissions’ for…

Great news! Our Poetry Off the Page Blog, which focuses on theory and methodology, has just gone live with a post written by Claire Palzer on the role of interviewing in poetry performance research! Guest contributions cordially invited.

The first post on the Poetry Off the Page blog is out now! It was written by our PhD researcher Claire Palzer and is concerned with the vital role of interviews in poetry performance research. Access it here!

Marie Krebs has produced a Podcast trailer for us, which Spotify has already picked up – for more information on the PoP podcast and to listen to the trailer, visit our Podcast page!

We are happy to report that our second project conference “All Borders Blur: Mapping Intersections and Genre Crossings in UK Spoken Word Poetries since 1965” successfully took place from 11-12 November at Queen Mary University London. Here you can find the conference report with the cover design by Shefali Banerji.

VK Poetry Off the Page, Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik. Spoken word poet Ty’rone Haughton will visit the VK Poetry Off the Page (Julia Lajta-Novak) on 26 May to perform some of his poetry, answer the students’ questions, and engage them in creative activities. Ty’rone (ti-rone) Haughton is a Jamaican…

Our PI Julia Lajta-Novak worked on an article for the University of Vienna’s magazine for scientific communication “Rudolphina”. Access the full German-language text here!