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Creative Critical @creativecritical.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

'Any free time should have been spent on publishable work that might improve my prospects. But I was exhausted that evening. I idly flipped through Auden, paused on the poem ‘Lullaby’, and picked up a dusty guitar with my other hand.' New on our website: J.T. Welsch on setting poems to music.

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Strange Conversations: Musical Poem Settings as Creative-Critical Practice - Creative-Critical

Might the first-person critical-creative voice be a marker not of identification with one’s subject, nor of the collapsing of critical distance, but rather a different kind of creative act that afford...

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Creative Critical @creativecritical.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

'No, there was something in the poetry itself, something that I was unable to simply dismiss as nostalgic white-nationalist kitsch-mongering, something bittersweet and strange that seemed to rumble away beneath the surface of the text.' New on our website: @ajbwells.bsky.social on Banjo Paterson

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Overflowed earth: Versions against Banjo Paterson - Creative-Critical

By Alexander Wells. A.B. ‘Banjo’ Paterson (1864–1941) is probably the best-known and least-liked poet in Australia. His bush ballads, as they are called, still get inflicted on Australian school stude...

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Alexander Wells @ajbwells.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

My poem experiment (plus essay) is up at Creative Critical, check it out!!

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Victoria Moul @victoriamoul.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

What’s the best thing you’ve ever read about literary translation / literature in translation? Can be general, specific, theoretical, pragmatic whatever, any combination of languages. I’m writing a piece about the ones that have stayed with me but curious which have been important for others too.

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Alexander Wells @ajbwells.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

I wrote a little essay – and then some experimental poems – about Banjo Paterson, the terrible Australian poet I somehow can't get out of my head

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Gabriel Flynn @gabrielflynn.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Very proud to be publishing @ajbwells.bsky.social's ingenious piece on Banjo Paterson, 'the best-known and least-liked poet in Australia'. Please read and share widely!

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Creative Critical @creativecritical.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

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Strange Conversations: Musical Poem Settings as Creative-Critical Practice - Creative-Critical

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Victoria Moul @victoriamoul.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Today I have written about the delights of J. H. Prynne, the grand old Cantabrigian late modernist who died recently. (And a bit about his close contemporary, Geoffrey Hill.)

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Bank on the grammar flowing: on Prynne's music

Was Prynne better than Hill?

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Matthew Taunton @matthewtaunton.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

This is a great opportunity to join our school as a postdoc, and to work on m'colleague Tommy Karshan's AHRC-funded project 'Beyond the Essay: Creative-Critical Teaching'. Spread the word, and apply! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRJ527/s...

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Senior Research Associate at University of East Anglia

Apply now for the Senior Research Associate role on jobs.ac.uk - the leading job board for higher education jobs. View details.

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Irina Dumitrescu @irinadumitrescu.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Resharing this essay I wrote for @creativecritical.bsky.social. When I wrote it, I thought it was a reflection on the past. I now see it was a guide to my future. creativecritical.net/why-im-no-lo...

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Why I'm No Longer a Proper Academic - Creative-Critical

By Irina Dumitrescu. A talk given at the Creative Critical launch event at UCL's Institute for Advanced Studies in September 2022.

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University English @univeng.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

#EnglishCreates: Futures Today, Dr JT Welsch (University of York) re-examines the so-called 'death of reading': 'Like most clickbait, these rants rest on a false opposition. There’s no real war between print and digital media.' universityenglish.ac.uk/death-of-rea... #EnglishStudies

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a swarm of autumn bugs @facefullabugs.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Love the glimpse into the beautiful mind that notated this used copy of Moby Dick I got

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The phrase ‘Call me Ishmael’, the first sentence of the book, is highlighted in blue, with careful highlighting on the very big C at the start. Above this, written in ballpoint pen ‘His name’

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Creative Critical @creativecritical.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

creativecritical.net is open for submissions! Please send your > essays, poems, stories, translations > reflections on the relationship between creative and critical practice > course materials or syllabi that incorporate creative work into critical teaching to editors@creativecritical.net

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Welcome to Creative Critical - Creative-Critical

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Creative Critical @creativecritical.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

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Welcome to Creative Critical - Creative-Critical

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Jonathan Gibbs @jonathangibbs.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

“Sustainable, infinite, inspiring,” Nicholas Royle called A Personal Anthology. Tomorrow’s edition, with a dozen handpicked short story recommendations, comes courtesy of guest editor Tim MacGabhann. Sign up below, or RT if you already subscribe! apersonalanthology.substack.com/about

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About - A Personal Anthology

A weekly guest-editor picks and introduces a personal anthology of twelve favourite short stories. Click to read A Personal Anthology, by Jonathan Gibbs, a Substack publication with thousands of subsc...

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Gabriel Flynn @gabrielflynn.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

I wrote about writing about a long ago trip to Faslane Peace Camp, very happy to see it published today by the excellent @minorliteratures.bsky.social. Read on desktop because the formatting is important!

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Dr Laura Varnam @drlauravarnam.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

This was a fantastic colloquium and it’s great to see all the materials & keynote up on Creative Critical dot net! Check it out 👇

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Tim Beasley-Murray @timb-m.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

“Every man who plays with literature at all must be ambitious to succeed in some form of art that may be called 'creative,' as distinct from critical—a distinction which, since Arnold taught us our lesson, we know does not exist. ” Macy's nascent Creative-criticsm @creativecritical.bsky.social

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Katie da Cunha Lewin @kdclewin.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

If anyone on here has received an RSL Literature Matter Award and would be up for sharing their application, I'd be v grateful!

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Tim Beasley-Murray @timb-m.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Published today! My book on play and seriousness. “… explodes all academic frames and expectations.” Emmanuel Carrère @manchesterup.bsky.social manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526177766/

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Critical games - Browse and buy the eBook edition of Critical games by Tim Beasley-Murray

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Creative Critical @creativecritical.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

New on our website: What Is Creative Criticism? A Field Report on a Colloquium at Oxford, hosted by Joe Moshenska and Iris Pearson and with a keynote by Mary Capello.

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What is Creative Criticism? - A Field Report on a Colloquium: Oxford, June 2024 - Creative-Critical

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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Help John help us 👇

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Jen Calleja @jencalleja.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

“audacious, polemical, essential” *Fair: The Life-Art of Translation* got a dream review in The Observer New Review today !!! Out Friday from @prototypepubs.bsky.social

A blue book resting on an open newspaper

A close up of the title and subheading of a newspaper article: ‘In their own words? Two illuminating new books on literary translation’

A close up of a photo me, a youngish woman in a white T-shirt underneath a pier. A pop out quote above it reads ‘The book keeps in sight Jen Calleja’s abiding excitement at language”

A picture of me with my head bowed over the own newspaper reading with a slight smile

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Jen Calleja @jencalleja.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

So good! Saving this…

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Tolka @tolkajournal.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Just one more day to submit for Tolka Issue Ten. Send us your non-fiction, memoir, essays, autofiction, and anything that falls in between. Submissions close midnight, Wednesday 21 May.

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Creative Critical @creativecritical.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

'...this could be equally true for the poem, which is also a stain between its poles; an indiscriminately word-covered darkness, the thick blackness of airless language – and opposing it, a white and wordless silence.' Denise Riley, 'Staining, egging, binding' creativecritical.net/staining-egg...

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Joe @lifeisnotanovel.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

This year I’ll be writing the ‘Fiction 1945-2000’ section for the 2024 edition of The Year’s Work in English Studies. If you published a monograph / chapter / article on (or mostly on) British fiction from 1945 to 2000 between 1st January and 31st December 2024, please let me know! Thanks

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Creative Critical @creativecritical.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

‘Poetics takes structural homologies from science and philosophy, but also from gardening and pinball, if it needs to.’ From our archive: @robertsheppard.bsky.social on poetics

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Gathering from the Past - Creative-Critical

'Gathering from the Past' by Robert Sheppard, part of 'Poetics: A Blog'

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Irina Dumitrescu @irinadumitrescu.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Friends, creativecritical.net is now on Bluesky! It's an online journal and resource co-edited by Thomas Karshan, Gabriel Flynn, and myself, dedicated to bridging the gap between creative and critical practices.

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Welcome to Creative Critical - Creative-Critical

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Creative Critical @creativecritical.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Hello, Bluesky! We are a website for writing, research, and teaching that explores the relationship between creative and critical practices. To give you a taste, here's one of our most popular posts: @vijaykhurana.bsky.social rewriting a passage from Joyce's The Dead. Please share!

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A Little Death - Creative-Critical

By Vijay Khurana. A Little Death is a parody project in which the author rewrites the same passage of Joyce’s ‘The Dead’ again and again (and again and again), in various styles, in an attempt to reve...

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