Media contributions
1Media contributions
Title Responding to the pandemic through poetry Degree of recognition National Media name/outlet University of Plymouth News Media type Web Country/Territory United Kingdom Date 5/10/20 Description Professor Anthony Caleshu, Head of English and Creative Writing at the University of Plymouth, is Principal Investigator for a £110,000 project, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, to investigate the use of poetry as a mode of discourse during this time of COVID-19.
Anthony and his team have developed an interactive website where members of the public can submit work to be published as well as to comment upon each other’s work while taking part in discussions and Q&As.
Since the project started on 1 June, more than 150 new poems have been published and 15,000 public visits recorded, with numerous testaments about how poetry is being used to help people respond to the coronavirus pandemic.
In addition to the public response, Caleshu and his Co-Investigator Rory Waterman (of Nottingham Trent University) have commissioned work from 40 poets – 20 from the UK and 20 from around the world – which they’ll edit and publish in the first anthology of new work that reflects upon COVID-19 and the unprecedented lockdown it has precipitated.URL https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/news/responding-to-the-pandemic-through-poetry Persons Anthony Caleshu