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Centre for Poetry and Poetics, Sheffield as its first reading into the Autumn 2023 Series presents: a reading with CUT COLLECTIVE; a collective of writers of poetry, prose, hybrid and experimental texts. We will hear readings by Mark Lindsey, Ethel Maqeda, Amber Whitham and AJ Moore. The four readings will be preceded by short readings from some of our fresh MA in Creative Writing Sheffield graduates: Heather Beier, Harley Riley, Milly Winston-Jacques and Mina Miller.

Mark Lindsey was awarded his MA in Creative Writing from the University of Sheffield and is currently working on his first full collection of experimental, hybrid poetry. His writing uses prose, poetry, poetic essays and collage to explore issues of fiction and truth, politics, history, misogyny, psychology and trauma. His research includes explorations of grief, the importance of the physical and its relation to truth in poetry and non-fiction and use of erasure as a method of exposure in the works of contemporary women poets. His work has been published by “independent, cross-cultural, multi-lingual experimental publisher” Pamenar Press and in print and online editions of the University of Sheffield’s creative writing journal Route 57. His first book NEXT TO NOTHING and THIS WAS MEANT TO BE A STORY was published by Beir Bua Press and is a winner of the 2021 Laurence Sterne Prize and was nominated for the Seamus Heaney Poetry Prize for First Full Collection 2023.

Amber V Whitham’s writing is often concerned with the relationships and parallels between animal, plant, and human bodies, intertwined with Dadaist concepts of consciousness, illness, trauma and the corporeal condition. Her work consists of hybrid writing which ranges from narrative prose to traditional verse; often blending the two to emulate a stream of consciousness that is both physically and metaphorically represented on the page.; symbolising the erosion that trauma has upon both the body and mind and how mental and physical illness might affect the natural world. She completed both her BA in English Literature and her MA in English Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Sheffield, where her research focused on modern women’s poetry and its treatment of illness. Having had her work featured in Route57, Amber is currently working full-time as a copywriter, whilst writing in her spare time and working on her newest collection.

Ethel Maqeda is a Sheffield-based Zimbabwean British writer and graduate of the University of Sheffield’s MA Creative Writing program. With a passion for foregrounding unheard narratives, her work draws inspiration from African women’s experiences, at home and in the diaspora. She uses prose fiction and non-fiction to explore issues of home, black womanhood, African women’s struggles, and triumphs over experiences of racism, colonialism and global exploitation. She is currently writing a creative non-fiction collection exploring Southern African women’s practice of Ubuntu in the diaspora. Ethel’s stories have appeared in various journals, including Short Fiction: The Visual Literary Journal, Isele Magazine, Wasafiri Magazine, and the University of Sheffield’s creative writing journal Route 57) and in anthologies, Volume-3 (Palm-Sized Press), We are not Shadows (Folkways Press), Wretched Strangers (Boiler House) and Verse Matters (Valley Press).

A J Moore is a Creative Writing PhD candidate at the University of Sheffield, researching the archive, intertextuality and identity. Work in Route 57, Blackbox Manifold, D.O.R (LJMcD Communications), Eyeland (c22 Press), For The Love Of, Beir Bua Journal and The Babel Tower Noticeboard. Chapbooks M(P)atriarchive (Beir Bua Press) and Zeitgeist (c22 Press).

Twitter: @AJMoore_70.

Further info:

Futher info on the collective: https://www.cutcollectivewriters.org/

[routefiftyseven]

Launch May 30th!

The officical lauch for Route 57 Issue 14, including online content, will be held on May 30th at Blackwell’s book shop, Jessop West, University of Sheffiled. It’s free to attend, speakers tba. Check out the Facebook event for more info and updates: https://www.facebook.com/events/362758494212729/

[willrt250]

Cosas chingonas que te encuentras en la ruta 👌🏻😈🏁 #route57 #gasomax #biker (at Gasomax San Luis) https://www.instagram.com/p/B2H9blzp089/?igshid=f3cwyskj8bj9

[thehistorygirlnj]

Yesterday I also visited the Concrete Mile, a section of Route 57 in Franklin Township, #NewJersey. This was the first concrete highway built in New Jersey, in 1912, with cement manufactured at Thomas A. Edison's Portland Cement Company in nearby New Village. #nj #njhistory #SpreadTheHistory #historygirl #travelblog #travelblogger #blog #blogger #thisisnj #jerseycollective #njspots #explorenj #igersnj #ushistory #americanhistory #franklintownshipnj #franklintownship #thomasedison #portlandcement #concretemile #transportation #history #newvillagenj #concrete #highway #concretehighway #route57 #warrencountynj (at Franklin Township, Warren County, New Jersey)

[nj-stone]

Aug. 10, 2021 the #57 line resumes! YEAH! 

https://www.sfmta.com/travel-updates/permanent-service-changes-effective-august-10-2019#Route57

[meebtravels]

Things I love...

Things I love about Melbourne (Part 1)

Trams! Occasionally late, slow, delayed by cars, but they go everywhere in this freaking city and that's cool. Fairly easy to understand, too. The drivers are typically kind and willing to help/tell you where to go. And the customer service staff you encounter normally at busy stations & on busy trams, good sense of humour and again, very helpful with letting you know where to go. Many of them seem as though they truly enjoy their job. 

Not only just the regular transit trams, but there's also the "City Circle Tram", this tram is free, does a loop around the outer perimeter of the Central Business District (aka CBD) and along the way, they announce fun and interesting things to do at each stop. And if you're living here like we are (and you're a cheap ass), this tram is perfect as it takes you to the Harbour Town Shopping Outlet, Costco and plenty of grocery stores along route as well!

To be honest, I really just love all the transit in this city in general. But more on that later.  

Special shout out to my favourite (so far) Tram Routes: 57, 55, & 96!

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Fine tuning the printing process at La Biblioteka, Sheffield. Can’t wait to show you the finished product. Photos by @thethingsiveseen-photography.

[routefiftyseven]

Route 57 Issue 14 is now avaliable for purchase! Buy it on indigogo, where you can get a variety of perks: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/route-57-issue-14-loco-motion#/

For those of you in Sheffield, copies are also currently avaliable from the School of English reception, Jessop West (University of Sheffield campus).

Copies are £6, featuring a brilliant selection of loco-motion themed creative wiritng and art.

[routefiftyseven]

Thank you to everyone who attended our launch at the National Railway Museum on Friday, and a special thanks to our wonderful poets for sharing their work.

[routefiftyseven]

We don’t have Wi-Fi, porn or paracetamol. We can’t hem skirts, sharpen pencils or pluck your ear hair out. -Katherine M Rogers, ‘This is Your Train Manager Speaking’ Full poem in Loco-Motion, avaliable soon.

[routefiftyseven]

Here’s the official promotional video for issue 14, filmed by myself and fellow work placement students at York’s National Railway Museum. Here, a selection of our contributors discus their infulences and things to come in Loco-Motion.

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Issue 14 front cover! Exclusive designed by Sheffield artist Abi Goodman.

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Had a great day filming at the National Railway Museum in York. Promotional video to come. Photo by @thethingsiveseen-photography.

[thehistorygirlnj]

The 1836 Port Colden House in the Port Colden section of Washington Township, Warren County, #NewJersey. This is the Port Colden Historic District's largest and most impressive contributing resource and is an outstanding example of Greek Revival #architecture. It was built by William C. Dusenberry using materials salvaged from another Warren County #hotel near Broadway. As early as 1842, this building was home to a a private school of Episcopalian affiliation called St. Matthew's Hall, which closed sometime prior to 1862. It was then converted into a hotel and a stagecoach stop called the Elbro House. It said to have fallen into disrepute as a hangout for ruffians from the Morris Canal, and its use as a hotel was abandoned by 1895. In the 1980s the building was converted into professional offices, although it is now abandoned. Hopefully it can once again be restored and reopened. #nj #njhistory #SpreadTheHistory #historygirl #travelblog #travelblogger #blog #blogger #thisisnj #jerseycollective #njspots #explorenj #igersnj #ushistory #americanhistory #washingtontownshipnj #washingtontownship #history #portcolden #portcoldennj #route57 #warrencountynj #morriscanal #deserve2preserve #greekrevival #archi_ologie #oldhouselove (at Port Colden Historic District)

[thehistorygirlnj]

The Port Colden Schoolhouse in the Port Colden section of Washington Township, Warren County, #NewJersey. The #schoolhouse was built in 1869 for a cost of about $4,600 on the banks of the Morris Canal Boat Basin. Over the course of its history, the school had been used for church services and Sunday school classes, as a courthouse, police station, and eventually storage. In 2000, the Washington Township Board of Education received a grant for the structure's restoration and adaptive reuse as school district offices. #nj #njhistory #SpreadTheHistory #historygirl #travelblog #travelblogger #blog #blogger #thisisnj #jerseycollective #njspots #explorenj #igersnj #ushistory #americanhistory #washingtontownshipnj #washingtontownship #history #portcolden #portcoldennj #route57 #warrencountynj #school #brick #brickporrn #morriscanal #adaptivereuse #preservation (at Port Colden Historic District)

[cppsheffield]

Centre for Poetry and Poetics Presents: Dorey, Fibisan, Lindsey, Jones, Maqeda and Moore with intros by Agnes Lehoczky

Benjamin Dorey writes poems that focus on communicating mad experiences. He is fascinated by the ways in which poetry provides a space in which mad thinking can be expressed with less risk of being pathologised or psychologically framed, and where form and musicality in language can work to nod toward the ineffable in ways prosaic language struggles to. His first pamphlet, a mad journey around the Seven Hills of Sheffield, was published by Spirit Duplicator in 2017, and his work has been also been anthologised and appeared in various journals. He occasionally self publishes poems, photographs and thoughts on benjamindorey.com . He is currently working on a PhD at the University of Sheffield part time, while also working in mental health services to deliver training around the language, narrative and recovery to NHS staff.

Loma is a Sheffield-based poet. She is inspired by place and the movement of people and often writes about how identity manifests in, and is altered by a person's surroundings. She is currently working on her creative writing PhD looking at BIPOC contemporary poetry.

Veronica Fibisan (Dr) has recently completed a PhD at The University of Sheffield in English Literature and Creative Writing. She is Editor of the creative writing journal Route57, and ASLE-UKI Postgraduate and Early-Career Representative. She has notably published poetry in The Sheffield Anthology (Smith/Doorstop, 2012), CAST: The Poetry Business Book of New Contemporary Poets (Smith/Doorstop, 2014), Plumwood Mountain Journal (4.1), the Wretched Strangers Anthology (Boiler House Press, 2018), PAN (2019, 2020) and Voices for Change Anthology (2020).

Mark Lindsey was awarded his MA in Creative Writing from the University of Sheffield and is currently working on his first full collection of experimental, hybrid poetry. His writing uses prose poetry, poetic essays and collage to explore issues of fiction and truth, politics, history, misogyny, psychology and trauma. His research includes explorations of grief, the importance of the physical and its relation to truth in poetry and non-fiction and use of erasure as a method of exposure in the works of contemporary women poets. His work has been published in Pamenar Press Magazine and Route 57 and Mark is a founder member of the Sheffield-based writer’s group Cut Collective. He also has a very exciting project coming in the near future which he's not yet able to talk about.

Ethel Maqeda is a Sheffield-based Zimbabwean writer and graduate of the University of Sheffield’s MA Creative Writing program. Her writing has appeared in various anthologies and magazines, including Wasafiri and several issues of the University of Sheffield’s creative writing journal, Route 57. A debut short story collection, Mushrooms for my Mother and Other Stories, made the 2020 S1 Leeds Literary Prize longlist. Her writing has also enjoyed some recognition elsewhere. Short story ‘Sisters’ reached finalist position in Myriad Editin’s First Drafts Competition in 2018, and flash essay ‘Ubuntu’ was runner up in Sunspot Literary Journal’s A Single Word Contest in 2020. Ethel started writing to keep a connection with the various places she calls home. Before that, she was a theatre artist who divided her time between the University of Zimbabwe’s Alfred Beit Hall and the communities in and around Harare and Zimbabwe. Lately, Ethel has reconnected with her theatre roots, working on a participatory performance and research project for young people from communities where arts engagement is low. For her day job, Ethel is a link worker for a community organisation that helps speakers of other languages to develop their functional English skills. She is also proudly the mother of two amazing young men. She loves laughing and loves dancing but loves dancing while laughing more.

A J Moore is a PhD candidate at the University of Sheffield, researching the role of the archival drive and found materials in author interrogation of identity under the supervision of Agnes Lehoczky and Adam Piette. Her work has been published in Route 57, Beir Bua Journal and Blackbox Manifold. Her debut pamphlet, M(P)atriarchive is published by Beir Bua press.  She is a founder member of Cut Collective Writers.   Twitter: @AJMoore_70/@cutwriters.

This will be a 'real' event but with an online link too where you'll need to register if you are home-bound, but otherwise it'd be good to see you there:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/centre-for-poetry-and-poetics-sheffield-tickets-195114561907?utm_campaign=post_publish&utm_medium=email&utm_source=eventbrite&utm_content=shortLinkNewEmail