The Three Manifesti by Davide D’Elia The Centre for Poetic Innovation addresses poetry and poetics creatively, critically and historically, promoting and studying poetic innovation in a broad sense of both terms, from poetry as traditionally understood to poetic aspects of visual and material art forms, of prose writing as well as interactions with music, dance and digital poetry. The key aims of the Centre are:

• Hosting speakers, workshops and conferences
• Support and development of doctoral and post-doctoral research
• Public engagement and impact activities
• Joint Research Grant applications and research projects

Upcoming event

19 November 2024, 1-2pm, Arts Seminar Room 9

Dr Robin MacKenzie, School of Modern Languages, University of St Andrews

Scenes from the Shoormal: Drift Objects in Some Contemporary Scottish Poems

Icelandic archaeologist Þóra Pétursdóttir claims in her 2018 essay ‘Drift’ that ‘the Anthropocene – the “Age of Man” – is in essence an age of drift matter’. In this paper Dr Robin MacKenzie will be looking at the representation of drift objects in some recent texts by Scottish poets such as Kathleen Jamie and Roseanne Watt.