charlotte shevchenko knight
@shevchenkoknight.bsky.social
poet, unfortunately. Food for the Dead (Jonathan Cape). Lecturer @ University of Hull. NWCDTP-funded PhD on authotheory and anorexia @ Manchester Writing School. rep’d by Peter Straus @ RCW Literary Agency
haven’t really posted on here in a while because it feels like shouting into the void BUT it feels important enough to say that i’m now a Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Hull which has been a big dream for years now. probably the only thing worth void posting
September 29, 2025 at 8:07 AM
haven’t really posted on here in a while because it feels like shouting into the void BUT it feels important enough to say that i’m now a Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Hull which has been a big dream for years now. probably the only thing worth void posting
choose your fighter
August 29, 2025 at 9:20 AM
choose your fighter
i’ll also be reading a newly commissioned poem for Manchester Literature Festival in what is their 20th anniversary (!) alongside my fellow Multilingual City Poet manchesterliteraturefestival.co.uk/events/manch...
August 15, 2025 at 9:37 AM
i’ll also be reading a newly commissioned poem for Manchester Literature Festival in what is their 20th anniversary (!) alongside my fellow Multilingual City Poet manchesterliteraturefestival.co.uk/events/manch...
reading a collection of Helene Cixous’s essays and she essentially pulls this move every time (which i love)
August 10, 2025 at 8:24 PM
reading a collection of Helene Cixous’s essays and she essentially pulls this move every time (which i love)
sooo interesting to watch this interview of Agnès Varda and Susan Sontag and see how Jack Kroll interrupts Sontag when she is talking about being interrupted, only to mansplain Citizen Kane. 1969. has anything changed at all lmao youtu.be/XTO61r_UjU4?...
July 23, 2025 at 6:12 AM
sooo interesting to watch this interview of Agnès Varda and Susan Sontag and see how Jack Kroll interrupts Sontag when she is talking about being interrupted, only to mansplain Citizen Kane. 1969. has anything changed at all lmao youtu.be/XTO61r_UjU4?...
working on a poem for a friend, which means i get to return to some of my ‘essential’ reading — sharing here as a lil treat for everyone else. in order, Sophie Robinson, Frank O’Hara, Anne Carson 🪨
July 5, 2025 at 11:35 AM
working on a poem for a friend, which means i get to return to some of my ‘essential’ reading — sharing here as a lil treat for everyone else. in order, Sophie Robinson, Frank O’Hara, Anne Carson 🪨
thrilled to share that i’m now a winner of the Somerset Maugham Award for Food for the Dead! it’s an incredible list of authors and i feel honoured to be joining that legacy. huge thank you to the judges, @societyofauthors.bsky.social, my friends, family and love for making it an evening to remember
June 19, 2025 at 9:23 AM
thrilled to share that i’m now a winner of the Somerset Maugham Award for Food for the Dead! it’s an incredible list of authors and i feel honoured to be joining that legacy. huge thank you to the judges, @societyofauthors.bsky.social, my friends, family and love for making it an evening to remember
Maya Caspari, Becca Drake, and Janine Bradbury all delivering phenomenal performances tonight at Bluebird Bakery in York. very lucky to call these poets our own 💙
June 12, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Maya Caspari, Becca Drake, and Janine Bradbury all delivering phenomenal performances tonight at Bluebird Bakery in York. very lucky to call these poets our own 💙
just took my driving theory test (and passed!) but i met a girly at the test centre clearly hungover as all hell and she hit me with the
June 11, 2025 at 10:44 AM
just took my driving theory test (and passed!) but i met a girly at the test centre clearly hungover as all hell and she hit me with the
Bruce Springsteen tonight in Liverpool welcoming onstage a ‘local lad’ Paul McCartney — yes i cried ❤️🩹
June 7, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Bruce Springsteen tonight in Liverpool welcoming onstage a ‘local lad’ Paul McCartney — yes i cried ❤️🩹
went for dinner and there was this face from a mural reflected in my friend’s cutlery but i didn’t realise that was what was happening at first and got scared that it was josie packard
June 5, 2025 at 8:21 PM
went for dinner and there was this face from a mural reflected in my friend’s cutlery but i didn’t realise that was what was happening at first and got scared that it was josie packard
stills from a test shoot this weekend / making visual work as part of my new book-in-progress / these seem to work as a fun triptych / what does an embodied poetics look like? 💋
May 25, 2025 at 12:24 PM
stills from a test shoot this weekend / making visual work as part of my new book-in-progress / these seem to work as a fun triptych / what does an embodied poetics look like? 💋
“‘A stupid place,’ I said,” / “‘for good-byes’” “‘I have only’” “one expression” “for my face,’ he said” / “‘I can’t smile” “I can’t cry” “I have my owl look—“ “‘Good-bye, my dear’”
RIP Alice Notley 🤍
RIP Alice Notley 🤍
May 21, 2025 at 7:50 AM
“‘A stupid place,’ I said,” / “‘for good-byes’” “‘I have only’” “one expression” “for my face,’ he said” / “‘I can’t smile” “I can’t cry” “I have my owl look—“ “‘Good-bye, my dear’”
RIP Alice Notley 🤍
RIP Alice Notley 🤍
keep writing about the failures of language in different ways and then finding out Lacan already addressed my exact issues but in a much more chic and french way
May 19, 2025 at 2:59 PM
keep writing about the failures of language in different ways and then finding out Lacan already addressed my exact issues but in a much more chic and french way
i got to see Bruce Springsteen last night in Manchester — one of the most sincere performers there is, i was so surprisingly moved the entire time, keep in mind he played for THREE HOURS (!)
May 18, 2025 at 7:41 AM
i got to see Bruce Springsteen last night in Manchester — one of the most sincere performers there is, i was so surprisingly moved the entire time, keep in mind he played for THREE HOURS (!)
losing my mind over this reddit post where people seem to find it easier to believe that the characters of Dogtooth are ACTUALLY DOGS rather than the possibility that it’s a film about the extremes of abuse???
May 13, 2025 at 1:07 PM
losing my mind over this reddit post where people seem to find it easier to believe that the characters of Dogtooth are ACTUALLY DOGS rather than the possibility that it’s a film about the extremes of abuse???
seriously enjoyed my visit to Oxford Brookes today, hearing all the fascinating panels for their creative-critical symposium and getting the chance to share my PhD research. big thanks to @wendycaitlin.bsky.social for capturing me in a particularly gleeful moment
May 7, 2025 at 5:42 PM
seriously enjoyed my visit to Oxford Brookes today, hearing all the fascinating panels for their creative-critical symposium and getting the chance to share my PhD research. big thanks to @wendycaitlin.bsky.social for capturing me in a particularly gleeful moment
walking around campus as a phd student makes me feel like Nadine Hurley btw
May 5, 2025 at 5:24 PM
walking around campus as a phd student makes me feel like Nadine Hurley btw
getting excited to share my research on poetry, autotheory and censorship this week for Oxford Brookes’s creative-critical symposium AND to hear some of the amazing panels scheduled / it’s gearing up to be a fantastic day www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/stratifyin...
May 5, 2025 at 1:35 PM
getting excited to share my research on poetry, autotheory and censorship this week for Oxford Brookes’s creative-critical symposium AND to hear some of the amazing panels scheduled / it’s gearing up to be a fantastic day www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/stratifyin...
walked around an Ing yesterday which i found out is a yorkshire specific word — it means water meadow. even the swamps in yorkshire are more beautiful
May 5, 2025 at 9:17 AM
walked around an Ing yesterday which i found out is a yorkshire specific word — it means water meadow. even the swamps in yorkshire are more beautiful
reading Wittgenstein today for a commission and had a scroll through his Wikipedia / found out rather weirdly that it’s the anniversary of his death today / rip to an icon
April 29, 2025 at 4:32 PM
reading Wittgenstein today for a commission and had a scroll through his Wikipedia / found out rather weirdly that it’s the anniversary of his death today / rip to an icon
had such a lovely time reading @lyrafest.com / lots of bizarre coincidences and crossovers / a weekend of kismet in the Bristol sun 🌞
April 29, 2025 at 11:34 AM
had such a lovely time reading @lyrafest.com / lots of bizarre coincidences and crossovers / a weekend of kismet in the Bristol sun 🌞
i’ve been re-watching my Twin Peaks boxset and oooh it makes me so mad that skipping the log lady’s intros is even an option…. we are silencing our beautiful women…..
April 27, 2025 at 9:55 AM
i’ve been re-watching my Twin Peaks boxset and oooh it makes me so mad that skipping the log lady’s intros is even an option…. we are silencing our beautiful women…..
travelling down to Bristol today to read alongside Ilya Kaminsky for @lyrafest.com — if you’re around, say hi! taking my copy of Autotheories ed @alexbrostoff.bsky.social to keep me in good company
April 27, 2025 at 8:05 AM
travelling down to Bristol today to read alongside Ilya Kaminsky for @lyrafest.com — if you’re around, say hi! taking my copy of Autotheories ed @alexbrostoff.bsky.social to keep me in good company