J. R. Carpenter

J. R. Carpenter

Biography

J. R. Carpenter is an artist, writer, and researcher working across performance, print, and digital media. Questions of place, displacement, migration, and climate change have long pervaded her work. Her debut poetry collection, An Ocean of Static, was highly commended for the Forward Prize 2018 and her web-based work has been presented around the world. Her digital poem, The Gathering Cloud, won the 2016 New Media Writing Prize. This is a Picture of Wind: A Weather Poem for Phones is currently on display in the British Library’s Digital Storytelling exhibition. A print collection by the same name was included in The Guardian’s Best Poetry Books of 2020 and longlisted for the Laurel Prize 2021.

All sessions by J. R. Carpenter

An Island of Sound

19:00 - 20:30