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Centre for Place Writing
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Creative-critical research centre, Manchester Metropolitan University. Exploring the relationship between writing & place to examine major contemporary issues.
Co-directed by Dr David Cooper & Dr Rachel Lichtenstein
https://linktr.ee/centreforplacewriting
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Centre for Place Writing @centreplacewriting.bsky.social · Jan 2
Some of our highlights from 2024 include:

Helen Mort's new book Ethel was pub & her appearance on Countryfile & Kendal Mtn Lit Fest.
David Cooper's co-ed Handbook of Literary Geographies was pub.
Kate Pahl led a brilliant new project working with young people, learning through trees.

#PlaceWriting
book cover of Ethel, with title and author in large solid white text and yellow drawings of plants woven through. Overlaid on a background of a photograph of a woman in black and white looking at the camera with short curly hair and a wooly hat. muted green background. book cover, dark brown with circles and shapes in white, below is a solid black background and white text that reads 'The Routledge Handbook of Literary Geographies' edited by Neal Alexander and David Cooper. white and green background with green text that reads 'Voices of the Future' and a hand drawn picture of a tree on the right with a large bird on the top and two people standing either side reaching out towards one another.
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geoopenaccess.bsky.social
New in Geo:

A literature review on climate smart strategies: Localising climate action and advancing some possibilities for artificial intelligence in resilience building for small-scale farmers in Zimbabwe' by Siphephisiwe Dube & Sadhana Manik

doi.org/10.1002/geo2... #geosky
A Literature Review on Climate Smart Strategies: Localising Climate Action and Advancing Some Possibilities for Artificial Intelligence in Resilience Building for Small‐Scale Farmers in Zimbabwe
Small-scale farmers across the world face numerous challenges exacerbated by climate change which severely affects their farming activities. Similarly in Zimbabwe, small-scale farmers are struggling ...
doi.org
November 25, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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#CFP: "The Ocean of Life. Humanities and the Ocean"
International seminar, 3 July 2026, University of the Ryukus, Japan.

Deadline for submissions: 19 December 2025

Info: international-seminar-ocean.my.canva.site

#envhum #envhist #ecolit #bluehumanities
Poster for the seminar, featuring a ocean waves on a blue background.
November 25, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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centreplacewriting.bsky.social
If you missed the first of Jean Sprackland's curated events for Night Vision last month, you can watch back on the link below.

#PoetrySky @dcahf-met.bsky.social @mcrcityoflit.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=efPv...
Night Vision: Andrew Michael Hurley and Jacob Polley - Wednesday 15th October 2025
YouTube video by Manchester Poetry Library
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November 23, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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Join multi-award winning poet Kit Wright as he reads alongside students from the poetry MA/MFA workshop @manmetuni.bsky.social
Professors Carol Ann Duffy and Andrew McMillan will introduce their students with Kit, whose new book ‘Jug Band Jag’ is out now.

www.mmu.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
Poetry beyond the Workshop with Kit Wright, 25 Nov 2025
Reading, Manchester Poetry Library
www.mmu.ac.uk
November 23, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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Happening today!
November 25, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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The @ihr.bsky.social #London #SummerSchool 2026 is now booking on the theme of 'Sickness & Health'. From the Black Death to Covid-19. Use code HEALTH10 before 24th Jan to get 10% discount! Bursaries available www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
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November 24, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Two #histmed CFPs with deadline for abstracts Jan 2026!
Life Histories in Mind: Mental Ill Health and Learning Disability in Context (Manchester) &
Blood is the price of coal: Coal communities, health and welfare in Britain and beyond from the 19th century to the present (Warwick)
For more details 👇
History of Medicine CFPs
If you wish to share your CFPs on the SSHM website please contact the Exec Sec, Dr Justine Pick [email protected] Life Histories in Mind: Mental Ill Health and Learning Disability in Context Location:…
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November 24, 2025 at 12:55 PM
centreplacewriting.bsky.social
New interview with Nikolai Duffy on his new novel, Common.
"Sitting with poet and author Nikolai Duffy at the Manchester Poetry Library, he speaks candidly about a new chapter in his life – one that leads him from poetry into the realm of prose."
Continue reading: aah-magazine.co.uk/2025/i-didnt...
"I didn't know I was writing a novel at first": Nikolai Duffy’s on his debut into the world of prose - aAh! Magazine
By Makenna AliFeatured image: Nikolai Duffy Sitting with poet and author Nikolai Duffy at the Manchester Poetry Library, he speaks candidly about a new chapter in his life – one that leads him from po...
aah-magazine.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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The first saplings from the illegally felled Sycamore Gap tree have been planted. Five of the 49 ‘trees of hope’ are now in the ground, with more heading to hospitals, schools, and community sites during National Tree Week.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
First Sycamore Gap tree 'offsprings' planted
More than half of the 49 saplings grown from the illegally felled tree will be planted in a week.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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Job Alert! DH postdoc at Edinburgh - Post-Doctoral Research Fellow to work on the AHRC-funded project "Voices in Slavery’s Archive: Law, Place and Testimony in British Guiana", which will build a digital archive out of the recorded words of enslaved people. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPN147/p...
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at The University of Edinburgh
Explore an exciting academic career as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow. Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.
www.jobs.ac.uk
November 24, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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A Monday morning question: which book(s) did you spend your weekend with?
November 24, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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From Broken Sleep Books - We are open for poetry pamphlet/chapbook submissions until 30th November.
@brokensleepbooks.bsky.social @dcahf-met.bsky.social #poetry #writingopps

www.brokensleepbooks.com
Welcome | Broken Sleep Books
A working-class indie publisher putting access to the arts at the forefront of what we do. Authors include J H Prynne, Gillian Clarke, Fiona Benson, Luke Kennard, Andre Bagoo, Andrew McMillan, Pádraig...
www.brokensleepbooks.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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The upcoming third of three curated events by Jean Sprackland to celebrate the launch of her new non-fiction book Night Vision, is on 4th December.
In conversation with @danzep.bsky.social & Helen McGhie, to discuss all things night & darkness.

Online tickets: www.mmu.ac.uk/poetry-libra...
Night Vision: Dan Richards and Helen McGhie (ONLINE TICKET), 04 Dec 2025
Reading, Online
www.mmu.ac.uk
November 23, 2025 at 6:55 PM
centreplacewriting.bsky.social
Tomorrow in Manchester.
November 24, 2025 at 8:22 AM
centreplacewriting.bsky.social
Join multi-award winning poet Kit Wright as he reads alongside students from the poetry MA/MFA workshop @manmetuni.bsky.social
Professors Carol Ann Duffy and Andrew McMillan will introduce their students with Kit, whose new book ‘Jug Band Jag’ is out now.

www.mmu.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
Poetry beyond the Workshop with Kit Wright, 25 Nov 2025
Reading, Manchester Poetry Library
www.mmu.ac.uk
November 23, 2025 at 7:11 PM
centreplacewriting.bsky.social
This week at the School of Digital Arts - 16 days of activism: film screening double bill - Monday, 25th November.

@dcahf-met.bsky.social #GenderBasedViolence

www.mmu.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
16 Days of Activism: Film Screening DOUBLE BILL, 25 Nov 2025
Film Screening, The School of Digital Arts
www.mmu.ac.uk
November 23, 2025 at 7:03 PM
centreplacewriting.bsky.social
The upcoming third of three curated events by Jean Sprackland to celebrate the launch of her new non-fiction book Night Vision, is on 4th December.
In conversation with @danzep.bsky.social & Helen McGhie, to discuss all things night & darkness.

Online tickets: www.mmu.ac.uk/poetry-libra...
Night Vision: Dan Richards and Helen McGhie (ONLINE TICKET), 04 Dec 2025
Reading, Online
www.mmu.ac.uk
November 23, 2025 at 6:55 PM
centreplacewriting.bsky.social
If you missed the first of Jean Sprackland's curated events for Night Vision last month, you can watch back on the link below.

#PoetrySky @dcahf-met.bsky.social @mcrcityoflit.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=efPv...
Night Vision: Andrew Michael Hurley and Jacob Polley - Wednesday 15th October 2025
YouTube video by Manchester Poetry Library
www.youtube.com
November 23, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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centreplacewriting.bsky.social
New paper from Michael Pinchbeck & Rhiannon Jones - Somewhere Between Breathing In and Breathing Out.
In Performance Research: A Journal of the Performing Arts.

#Pandemic #Covid19 #LongCovid

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Somewhere Between Breathing In and Breathing Out
Breathturn, a word coined by the poet Paul Celan, was the inspiration for a new audio immersive performance by Michael Pinchbeck for the Shedding Light on Long COVID project in Derby installed in S...
www.tandfonline.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:53 PM
centreplacewriting.bsky.social
Asia Triennial Manchester and Manchester Poetry Library welcomed Hiromi Itō for a reading and Q&A with her translator, the poet Jeffrey Angles, associate professor of Japanese literature and translation studies at Western Michigan University.

Recording below for anyone who missed it.

#PoetrySky
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Hiromi Itō is often credited with revolutionising postwar Japanese poetry with her work focusing on sexuality, childbirth, and women’s bodies. She moved to the US and has since focused on migration and the psychological effects of linguistic and cultural alienation.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOgp...
Komachi Project – Hiromi Ito and Jeffrey Angles at Manchester Poetry Library
YouTube video by Manchester Poetry Library
www.youtube.com
November 23, 2025 at 6:33 PM
centreplacewriting.bsky.social
Hiromi Itō is often credited with revolutionising postwar Japanese poetry with her work focusing on sexuality, childbirth, and women’s bodies. She moved to the US and has since focused on migration and the psychological effects of linguistic and cultural alienation.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOgp...
Komachi Project – Hiromi Ito and Jeffrey Angles at Manchester Poetry Library
YouTube video by Manchester Poetry Library
www.youtube.com
November 23, 2025 at 6:31 PM
centreplacewriting.bsky.social
New paper from Michael Pinchbeck & Rhiannon Jones - Somewhere Between Breathing In and Breathing Out.
In Performance Research: A Journal of the Performing Arts.

#Pandemic #Covid19 #LongCovid

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Somewhere Between Breathing In and Breathing Out
Breathturn, a word coined by the poet Paul Celan, was the inspiration for a new audio immersive performance by Michael Pinchbeck for the Shedding Light on Long COVID project in Derby installed in S...
www.tandfonline.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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centreplacewriting.bsky.social
How wonderful was NIGHT VISION: In Search of True Darkness, Jean Sprackland's book launch last night! Congratulations to Jean!
If you missed it, a recording will be available on YouTube soon:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=efPv...
beginning of poetry reading from Night vision in the library with the lights off. All is visible are dark shapes and a glow through the window in the centre. Andrew McMillan, standing at a lecture, introduces Jean Sprackland and Karen Solie, both seated behind him looking up. Jean is standing and looking at the audience. Andrew, Jean and Karen are looking at one another in conversation.
November 21, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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cathfletcher.bsky.social
Great meeting this afternoon to chat about public engagement around the upcoming Break with Rome 500th anniversaries. (This might seem a long way off but not in large project terms it isn't.) Would love to hear from others who might like to join in future conversations #skystorians
November 21, 2025 at 3:42 PM
centreplacewriting.bsky.social
How wonderful was NIGHT VISION: In Search of True Darkness, Jean Sprackland's book launch last night! Congratulations to Jean!
If you missed it, a recording will be available on YouTube soon:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=efPv...
beginning of poetry reading from Night vision in the library with the lights off. All is visible are dark shapes and a glow through the window in the centre. Andrew McMillan, standing at a lecture, introduces Jean Sprackland and Karen Solie, both seated behind him looking up. Jean is standing and looking at the audience. Andrew, Jean and Karen are looking at one another in conversation.
November 21, 2025 at 10:05 AM