The East Midlands Poetry Library is putting together a catalogue of East Midlands poets and their work.
Are there poets you know of who should be on the list? Can you and others in your network add them to the list?
The library is also aware that Black, Asian and ethnic minority poets are under-represented in how the literary landscape in the East Midlands is imagined.
Do you know any Black, Asian and ethnic minority poets who should be on the list?
To add poets to the list, please visit: https://tinyurl.com/EMpoets
Thursday, 19 March 2020
Thursday, 12 March 2020
East Midlands Poetry Library
The East Midlands Poetry Library aims to promote and encourage engagement with the poetry of the region.
The library is also building a catalogue of books by East Midlands poets and encouraging people to add relevant titles to the list.
The library will have a physical and an online presence.
What interested individuals, groups and organisations can do
Why the East Midlands matters
The East Midlands consists of the counties: Derbysire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, and Rutland; the major urban centres, Derby, Leicester, Lincoln, Mansfield, Northampton, and Nottingham; the towns, Boston, Chesterfield, Corby, Grantham, Hinckley, Kettering, Loughborough, Newark-on-Trent, Skegness, Wellingborough, and more.
The region has rich and diverse literatures; an estimated population of 4.8 million and is the 8th most populous region in the UK; 18 further education colleges, 9 universities, and around 180,000 students in secondary schools; and a very large potential audience the poetry library could reach.
To contact the library, email: PoetryMidlands@gmail.com
The library is also building a catalogue of books by East Midlands poets and encouraging people to add relevant titles to the list.
The library will have a physical and an online presence.
What interested individuals, groups and organisations can do
- Decide how they would like to support the library
- Add titles to the catalogue
- Encourage others to add titles to the catalogue
- Spread the word about the catalogue
- Get some of the books on the catalogue onto reading lists and into libraries
- Put together or support activities, events, festivals, workshops, lessons and doctoral studentship programmes looking at aspects related to regional poets and their work
- Suggest ways the library and activities associated with the library could be funded
Why the East Midlands matters
The East Midlands consists of the counties: Derbysire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, and Rutland; the major urban centres, Derby, Leicester, Lincoln, Mansfield, Northampton, and Nottingham; the towns, Boston, Chesterfield, Corby, Grantham, Hinckley, Kettering, Loughborough, Newark-on-Trent, Skegness, Wellingborough, and more.
The region has rich and diverse literatures; an estimated population of 4.8 million and is the 8th most populous region in the UK; 18 further education colleges, 9 universities, and around 180,000 students in secondary schools; and a very large potential audience the poetry library could reach.
To contact the library, email: PoetryMidlands@gmail.com
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