Workshop: 'Roots and Weeds' with Jason Allen-Paisant
Join us for our Five Bodies series of free monthly workshops exploring creative-critical writing, hybrid methodologies and experimental thinking.
A collaboration between the Critical Poetics Research Group at Nottingham Trent University and Nottingham Contemporary, this series of workshops investigates poetic ecologies in the Anthropocene. Exploring ideas from weeds and water to eco-trauma and deep time, and featuring some of the most important international creative-critical voices working today, the workshops aim to open up new conversations about entanglement, coexistence, resilience and sustainability. Providing a platform for debate, collaboration and innovation, and involving reading and discussion as well as writing, the workshops are designed for those interested in exploring the relationship between creative and critical theory and practice.
Our open call to participate in the 2022 series of workshops is now closed however, you can still join our monthly public readings online. For the full programme please click here.
Jason Allen-Paisant is a scholar and writer whose work explores embodied experience in the context of Afro-diasporic politics and worldbuilding. His most recent works reflect on the complex meanings of nature in Black life. His critically acclaimed collection, Thinking with Trees (Carcanet Press, 202) has been praised as 'a bold and impressive debut' (The Guardian) and as 'an expansive, fracturing subversive book' (The Irish Times). His work has also appeared in Granta, The Guardian, The Poetry Review, Callaloo, New Poetries VIII, The BBC, and other venues, and he has been the recipient of a prestigious Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship. Jason holds a Doctorate in Medieval and Modern Languages from the University of Oxford and now works as a Lecturer in Poetry and Decolonial Thought at the University of Leeds. He's currently developing a nonfiction book entitled Primitive Child: On Blackness, Landscape, and Reclaiming Time.
Event:
Workshop: 'Roots and Weeds' with Jason Allen-PaisantDates:
9 Mar 2022, 5.30pm–7.30pmCurator:
Olivia Aherne, Sarah Jackson & Dr Linda Kemp
Supported by:
