Katherine Collins

Oh, how lovely to see Isaac!

On beginnings, theme songs, spring, Caitlin Thomas, and connections Amit Chaudhuri once talked about trying to write a novel consisting entirely of opening paragraphs.

I decided to start writing in Substack for three reasons: 1. It would be nice to find some people. 2. To try and develop a regular practice. And finally, 3. Because I want to try and let go of some of the perfectionism that prevents me sharing things I've written. open.substack.com/pub/aliceisa...

That’s beautiful. The colours!

There are some very amusing Amazon reviews, if my recollection is correct.

Senate House Unbound: A Poetics Research Centre Takeover Join the Royal Holloway Poetics Research Centre for an interactive evening of poetry celebrating the Spineless Wonders exhibition.

Tomorrow the @royalholloway.bsky.social Poetics Research Centre will be leading live art performances and showcasing poetry films across floors 4 and 5 of @senatehouselib.bsky.social - be sure to drop by for bats, birds, bugs, and books🧡 www.london.ac.uk/senate-house...

Alice is a poet(ish) (@aliceisapoetish) A post about watery forms, more-than-human stories, and what happens when you don’t dilute your watercolour wash sufficiently.

A post about watery forms, more-than-human stories, and what happens when you don’t dilute your watercolour wash sufficiently. substack.com/profile/4184...

Here is something I didn’t know: while I was writing about Caitlin Thomas writing about Etna erupting, Etna was erupting!

THE CONFERENCE SCHEDULE IS LIVE‼️ We are so looking forward to the very fascinating, very international panels at “Poetry Off the Page, Around the Globe” Conference. Check out the complete schedule at popconf2025.univie.ac.at. Wish to attend? Register at tinyurl.com/popglobe. #PoPAroundtheGlobe

A poetic experiment in reading with reciprocity I’ve been thinking about academic extractivism recently, and encountered the work of Dr Max Liboiron via their collaborative project #Collabrary: a methodological experiment for reading with …

Sometimes I do things, then forget I've done them. This is one of those things: katherinecollinspoet.com/2022/12/02/a...

Maybe you get a ice cube as a souvenir too?

It's done. Just about ready to be completely redone. Probably.

We're excited to see that @aliceisapoetish.bsky.social & @ellekeboehmer.bsky.social's research on 'more-than-human stories of Antarctica' is one of the exhibits at the
@britishacademy.bsky.social Summer Showcase.

Visitors will be able to craft their own 'more-than-human' story via a story cube.

It's possible I might have almost finished my Caitlin Thomas novel. Almost. Like, in the realm of 10 more pages or so to write.

Weaving the Story of Nonbiological Mothering I am currently reading a friend’s book (it’s Isabel Davis’ wonderful Conceiving Histories: Trying for Pregnancy Past and Present, beautifully illustrated by Anna Burel and absolutely fascinating).

My book, Conceiving Histories, has begun to reach readers. Here is @lucyallengoss.bsky.social 's thoughtful response to its chapter about #WilliamHarvey
👏🏾👏🏾 Lucy.
open.substack.com/pub/lucyalle...

Was lucky to see this being carved into the wall.

Africa’s ‘sleeping’ language, |xam, has been written in stone at Oxford university The ǀxam language has been carved into a new building at Rhodes House to honour the labour and suffering of Africans during colonialism.

Giving my southern hemisphere linguistic determinism real world heft! @aliceisapoetish.bsky.social

theconversation.com/africas-slee...

shout out to the medievalists. they’d have a paleography system for alien comms quicker than you can say STOP DEFUNDING THE GODDAMN HUMANITIES

Lovely to receive my author’s copy of this brilliant collection, which looks especially beautiful in the winter sun.

Congrats @ellekeboehmer.bsky.social & @aliceisapoetish.bsky.social @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social

Symposium call for papers Set out more-than-human story-making as an interdisciplinary field of artistic research, establishing some theoretical, methodological, and ethical sources of inspiration, interrogating issues of prac...

'More-than-human' story-making symposium at
@OxLifeWriting 'establishing theoretical, methodological, and ethical sources of inspiration; interrogating issues of practice, aesthetic, and interpretation' #CFP deadline 28 Feb. antarcticstories.web.ox.ac.uk/event/more-h...

Do you want to know the best thing about neutrinos, which I have just learned from my son's physics paper? It's that the different types are called 'flavours'. Sometimes, physics is poetry.

Lovely photos! Southern light?

Our book is out! Life Writing and the Southern Hemisphere. @bloomsburybooks.bsky.social @aliceisapoetish.bsky.social

PERVERSE 8K "The most interesting part of my life is desire..."

open.substack.com/pub/perverse... << banging edition of @perversemag.bsky.social this week

“The ability to start out upon your own impulse is fundamental to the gift of keeping going upon your own terms. . . . Getting started, keeping going, getting started
again in art and in life, it seems to me this is the essential rhythm."

- Seamus Heaney

@lucyallengoss.bsky.social well do you?

Book Launch: Life Writing and the Southern Hemisphere

And also: oclw.web.ox.ac.uk/event/book-l... with @ellekeboehmer.bsky.social

First of two Oxford celebrations of our new book, out Dec 2024 with @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social

This event is 14 Jan at OCLW @wolfsonoxford.bsky.social

The next is 23 Jan at the PoCo Seminar @engfac.bsky.social

A group of penguins on an iceberg, with the headline: Antarctica more-than-human stories.

I have got out of the habit of posting. But this is my new stuff, check it out if you are interested in Antarctica and/or creative practice research. antarcticstories.web.ox.ac.uk If you're in Oxford in April 2025, you might fancy our workshop.

What Kermit (the frog) is called in ten different countries...

10. Kermit (Denmark)
9. Kermit (France)
8. Kermit (Romania)
7. Kermit (Slovakia)
6. Kermit (Italy)
5. Kermit (Canada)
4. Kermit (Iceland)
3. Kermit (the Netherlands)
2. Kermit (Poland)
1. Gustavo (Spain)

How lovely.

A screenshot of the Poetry Off the Page blog

Poetry performance researchers!
We proudly announce the launch of a new international blog with a focus on theory and methodology:
poetryoffthepage.univie.ac.at/blog/
Guest contributions cordially invited. Please spread the word! #spokenword