Group
Creative Practice: Writing and Publishing
Unit(s) of assessment: English Language and Literature
Research theme(s): Safety and Sustainability
School: School of Social Sciences
Overview
The purpose of this Research Group is to stimulate debate, collaboration and innovation among scholars and practitioners whose work engages and/or embodies literary creative practice and its dissemination. The Group focuses on the social and cultural impact of creative writing in all its guises, bringing together researchers whose work focuses on critical investigation through creative practice, and/or with how literature (fiction, poetry, scriptwriting, creative nonfiction, interactive fiction, and other genres) is, was, and will in future be disseminated.
It is located in the Department of Humanities, and is part of the Centre for Research in Literature, Linguistics and Culture. The Group is inherently transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary, collaborating with a wide range of regional, national and international partners to inspire and foster new forms of engagement with pressing social and cultural concerns. It is connected to Nottingham Creative Writing Hub, a practice-focused and fully student-inclusive outlet for creative practice.
Publications
Selected recent publications by group members include:
- Linda Kemp, The Moral Theology of the Devil / Clothed with the Sun (Leafe Press, 2025).
- Andrew Taylor, There’s Everything to Play for: The Poetry of Peter Finch (Seren, 2025).
- Anna Milon and Rory Waterman (eds), Lincolnshire Folk Tales Reimagined (Five Leaves, 2025).
- Andrew Taylor, European Hymns (Shearsman, 2024).
- Rory Waterman, Come Here to This Gate (Carcanet, 2024).
- Linda Kemp, Annunciation Sonnets (Broken Sleep, 2024).
- Rory Waterman, Endless Present: Selected Articles, Reviews and Dispatches, 2010-2023 (Shoestring, 2024).
- Peter Finch, Collected Poems, vol. I and vol. II, ed. Andrew Taylor (Seren, 2022).
- Andrew Taylor, Northangerland (Leafe Press, 2022).
- Rory Waterman, Wendy Cope (Liverpool University Press, 2021).
- Andrew Taylor, Not There – Here (Shearsman, 2021).
- Anthony Caleshu and Rory Waterman (eds), Poetry & Covid-19 (Shearsman, 2021).
- Rory Waterman (ed.), W. H. Davies: Essays on the Super-Tramp Poet (Anthem, 2021).
- Linda Kemp, Stitch (Contraband, 2020).
- Rory Waterman, Sweet Nothings (Carcanet, 2020).
- Andrew Taylor, Adrian Henri: The Poems (Greenwich Exchange, 2019).
- Eve Makis and Anthony Cropper, The Accidental Memoir (4th Estate, 2018).
Partnerships
Our recent research project partners include:
- Adverse Camber Productions
- BBC
- Bucheon UNESCO City of Literature
- Carcanet Press/PN Review
- The Conversation
- East Anglian Folklore Centre
- The Folklore Archive
- Five Leaves Publications/Five Leaves Bookshop
- Heritage Lincolnshire
- Lincolnshire Life
- Mrs Smith's Cottage Museum
- Nottingham UNESCO City of Literature
- Poetry Ireland
- The Poetry Society
- Seren Books
- Shearsman Books
- The Times Literary Supplement
- Arts Council England
- D.H. Lawrence Society
- LeftLion
- Football in the Community
- Inspire Nottingham
Related Staff
The PGSRG is led by Rory Waterman. Its membership includes postgraduate researchers and academics from across NTU's Schools.
Rory Waterman
Professor
School of Social Sciences
Andrew Taylor
Senior Lecturer
School of Social Sciences
Eve Makis
Senior Lecturer
School of Social Sciences
Anthony Cropper
Senior Lecturer
School of Social Sciences
James Walker
Senior Lecturer
School of Social Sciences
Dr Linda Kemp
Research Fellow
School of Social Sciences
Current/Recent PhD projects include:
- Paul Adey, ‘“Nothing New Under the Sun”: Literary Allusion, Intertextuality and Lyrical Performative Quotation in Hip Hop Lyricism’
- Panya Banjoko, ‘The Politics of Poetry in Nottingham and the Role of African-Caribbean Writers and Networks in the 1970s and 1980s’
- Matt Biggs, ‘Opening the Puzzle-Box: Exploring Narrative Techniques in Puzzle-Box Storytelling’
- Victoria Zoe Callus, ‘Paper Cuts: Investigating Paper Affect in Contemporary Experimental Literature’
- Linda Clark, ‘“That’s Not How It should End!”: The Effect of Reader/Player Responses on the Development of Narrative’
- Hannah Cooper-Smithson, ‘Patterns in Nature: The Use of Poetic Form in Contemporary Ecopoetry’
- Julie Gardner, ‘Fear and Hope in Contemporary British Poetry by Women’
- Lucy Grace, ‘Stories in Stones: Mines, Memory and the Geological Imagination in the Anthropocene’
- Helena Hunter, ‘Algae ecologies: Scale, Temporality and Modes of Address in Contemporary Anthropocene Poetry’
- Steve Katon, ‘Representations of Down’s Syndrome in Contemporary Upper Middle-Grade Children’s Literature’
- Kai Northcott, ‘Dissociation in Contemporary Literature’
- Ramisha Rafique, ‘The Ontology of the British Muslim Flâneuse: Decolonisation in British Muslim Women’s Writing’
- Tuesday Shannon, ‘Place Attachment and the Post-Industrial Landscape in the Poetry of Tony Harrison, Ian Parks and Helen Mort: A Critical and Creative Study’
- Graeme Williams, 'Æthelbald of Mercia: Examining Gender Roles in Male Historical Fiction'