The Interpunct marks a fundamental relation between the poetics of complexity & the limits of form. It relates – by a recursive tropological movement – the notion of a semantic minimum to an entro...

This is a short review of a one-day research conference that took place on November 5th, 2025, at Senate House, University of London. The conference was titled ‘Material Poetics: Drafting, Duration, F...

Writers Forum Workshop is pleased to host this listing of readings, exhibitions, performances, discussions, workshops and courses taking place on London’s innovative poetry scenes. If you wri…

One-day symposium bringing together researchers and practitioners working on process materialities and contemporary poetics.

1. I'm pleased to say there has been a first review of The Necessity of Poetics , by Rupert Loydell, in Tears in the Fence.  I suspect, as i...

Linda Kemp reviews Robert Sheppard, The Necessity of Poetics (2024)

Using one of my experimental poems as an example, this essay demonstrates how sculptural poetry can stand as a form of resistance as well as a feminist gesture with the potential to shape and heal soc...