English at Newcastle

We've had an amazing afternoon of ideas and research here at #SELLLconnections - a huge thank you to all our speakers and the conference organisers!

LF's research focusses on Allan Banks in Northumberland and the history of land and gender. #SELLLconnections

Now at #SELLLconnections - The wonderful Linda France is telling us about her research and poetry as part of the PhD in Creative Writing. It's not too late to join us in G13 Percy Building!

JBA: Language innovation in teenagers reaches its peak at around 17 years old. #SELLLconnections

Joaquín Bueno-Amaro: "How am I going to explain the uniqueness of Tyneside Teen Talk?" #SELLLconnections

Up next - ‘And I was like “It’s dead cheap, like!”, you know?’ - Joaquín Bueno-Amaro analyses the speech of Tyneside teenagers. #SELLLconnections

"space between ventriloquism and bearing witness is membrane thin" - Jake Campbell's poetic treatment of his native North East includes connections to Soviet Russia, Kyoto, and George Orwell! #SELLLconnections

Jake Campbell is sharing some of his PhD research and poetry with us! #SELLLconnections "My thesis is an attempt to write my way into a jagged poetic genealogy."

Up next at #SELLLconnections: Our panel on 'the North East' with presentations from poets Jake Campbell and Linda France and linguist Joaquín Bueno-Amaro. Head down to G13 Percy Building hear what they have to say!

Right now at the #SELLLconnections conference: fascinating panel discussion covering everything from C18 ship's logs, to poetry, to digital techonology, and where/how these things might inform one another.

LK: Thinking about the 'technology of the page', is it a failure of a poem to need to describe its form before reading it aloud? #SELLLconnections

DG: "Time occupies everything" in narratives of the sea and maritime life. #SELLLconnections

JHS: "Technology creates a sense of 'anywhereness'" in Kennaway's poems

James Harriman-Smith, lecturer in eighteenth-century literature is responding to the two fascinating 'People and Place' presentations we've heard so far. #SELLLconnections

"The mariner was in many ways considered always 'at sea' with all the connotations that come with that phrase." #SELLLconnections

Daniel Gane: 'How did the mariner bring their idea of place back home?' #SELLLconnections

Next Daniel Gane will be talking to us about experiments in articulating the ocean in eighteenth century journals by Byron, Wallis, Carteret and Cook. #SELLLconnections

from 'Words in Transit': You and I sit face to face across a table | The air is thick with words in transit' #SELLLconnections