Black Country Geopoetics, Talk and Workshop with Writer R.M. Francis 

Artsfest / Artsfest 2020 / Black Country Geopoetics, Talk and Workshop with Writer R.M. Francis

Join R. M. Francis, Poet in Residence for the Black Country Geological Society, for this talk and writing workshop.

Based on his geopoetry project, The Chain Coral Chorus R.M. Francis will give a poet's eye view of Black Country landscapes and explore how the geology of the region can enable and energise new creative place-writing. Drawing on the work of Geopoets, Kenneth White, Norman Bissel and Don McKay this workshop will consider a Deep Time perspective on the industrial and post-industrial cultures of this region.

Francis will conclude this session with a reading from some of his geopoems.

This project has been resourced and facilitated by the University of Wolverhampton Doctoral College and their Early Career Research Award Scheme.

R. M. Francis is a lecturer in Creative and Professional Writing at the University of Wolverhampton where he completed his PhD. He's the author of five poetry pamphlet collections. His novel, Bella, was published by Wild Pressed Books, and Smokestack Books will publish his poetry collection, Subsidence, in December 2020. In 2019 he was the David Bradshaw Writer in Residence at the University of Oxford and is currently Poet in Residence for the Black Country Geological Society.

R.M. Francis: rmfrancis.weebly.com 

Black Country Geological Society: bcgs.info/pub

Artsfest 2020

Beatrice Warde's VE Day Diary - A reading by Jessica Glaser / Liz Berry and Tom Hicks: In Conversation / In Conversation: Artist Dean Kelland and James Latunji-Cockbill Part 1 / Dr Max Stewart and Glass Artist Allister Malcolm in Conversation / Lisa Blower and Rob Francis in conversation / Louise Fenton - Lethal in Lace: The Story of a Witchcraft Poppet / Finding our Funny Roots: delving into Black Country humour / Books Across the Sea - Talk by Jessica Glaser / Dr Dean Kelland and James Latunji-Cockbill from IKON In conversation Pt2 / The Rise of Mass Fashion in the Black Country, Talk by Dr Jenny Gilbert / VJ Day Diary of Beatrice Warde - Reading By Jessica Glaser / Printing and Print Culture in the Midlands: a Webinar / Black Country Geopoetics, Talk and Workshop with Writer R.M. Francis / The Haunted and Cursed Dolls in Greyfriars Bothy, Dr Louise Fenton / Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles at Seventy, a talk by Dr Phil Nichols / Pen, Print and Communication in the Eighteenth Century: Webinar Book / We are Invisible, We are Visible / HoPIN Launch Event (History of the Printed Image Network) / 'Somehow', Poetry Reading and Talk with Helen Calcutt / Myriad Editions Literary Salon / Liz Berry Chats Dialect and Poetry with R. M. Francis