Race and Reviewing in the UK: The Ledbury Poetry Critics

英国的种族和评论：莱德伯里诗歌批评家

• 批准号: AH/V010581/1
• 负责人: Sandeep Parmar
• 金额: $ 12.81万
• 依托单位: University of Liverpool
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Fellowship
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FV010581%2F1
• 关键词: Race; Reviewing; UK; Ledbury; Poetry

Although publishing by UK poets of colour has risen sharply during the previous decade, poetry reviewing has largely lagged behind. This year-long project will build on Parmar's research on race and UK poetry, as well as on LPC's impact on diversity in reviewing, by extending both its qualitative and quantitative measures and aims to a much wider group of poetry critics, commissioning editors, arts and policy organisations and early career academics and emerging poetry critics Dr Alycia Pirmohamed and Dr Dave Coates (in post 9 months of the project). A programme of workshops, public events with panel discussions, Editor-in-Residencies and one-on-one mentoring will feed into a Critics Residency at Ledbury Poetry Festival in July 2021. Up to 30 critics selected by application in January 2021 will take part in this programme, alongside partners and editors from high-profile organisations such as the London Review of Books, The Poetry Review (Poetry Society), Times Literary Supplement, Scottish BAME writers network, Forward Arts Foundation, Spread the Word, Literature Wales and smaller publishing platforms such as Ambit, Poetry London, Poetry Wales, Wasafiri among others. In 2005 less than 1% of UK poets published by major presses were Black or Asian; by 2017 this increased to 16% (Freed Verse report, Spread the Word), as part of a wider cultural shift towards inclusion in literature led by schemes like The Complete Works (2007-2017), a mentorship programme for Black and Asian poets. In 2017, Parmar co-founded the Ledbury Poetry Critics mentorship scheme for BAME poetry reviewers with T.S. Eliot Prize winning poet and critic Sarah Howe. Ledbury's founding report found that only 3% of poetry reviewers in UK newspapers and magazines were non-white. Since its inception, LPC has mentored twelve poetry critics in the UK, four in the US and is currently developing an Irish critics programme with local partners. Ledbury's 2020 report on diversity in poetry culture, 'The State of Poetry and Poetry Criticism', shows that the LPC programme tripled poetry reviews by critics of colour--now nearly 10% of poetry reviews published in the UK are by non-white critics. But more work needs to be done to make poetry criticism and reviewing inclusive and diverse. The Critics Residency will take place over five days and will include: critic-led seminars on the language of reviewing and race; workshops focused on developing practical review writing skills; further opportunities for individual feedback on reviews; guidance on how to pitch to editors; opportunities to build a profile through networking with commissioning editors; reviewing tasks and individual writing time. Paid editor residencies throughout the year will partner critics with editors to develop editorial skills by jointly-producing one issue of a magazine or journal. A route to career progression from critic to commissioning editor is a crucial part of EDI work in poetry criticism. Editors must also be drawn from diverse cultural backgrounds. And thus far six Ledbury Critics have become editors at The Times, Oxford Poetry, the Poetry School, Culturised and Ambit. In terms of the quantitative aspects of the project, measuring inclusion through data is essential for gauging progress and areas for improvement in UK poetry reviewing. This project will use its existing research methods to develop an industry-wide standard method of self-reporting. An accessible and protected database will be made available to readers, critics and researchers of UK poetry culture by September 2021. These expanded quantitative measures will be shared and refined in consultation with editors, arts policy organisations, statisticians and critics, as will a method of annual reporting and peer auditing, to ensure accuracy and reliability of data. This database, which already stores anonymous data from 2009-2019, will be maintained in perpetuity by Liverpool's Centre for New and International Writing.

尽管英国有色人种诗人的作品在过去十年中大幅增加，但诗歌评论在很大程度上落在了后面。这个为期一年的项目将建立在帕玛尔对种族和英国诗歌的研究，以及LPC对多样性的影响，通过扩展其定性和定量措施，并旨在更广泛的诗歌评论家群体，委托编辑，艺术和政策组织以及早期职业学者和新兴诗歌评论家Alycia Pirmohamed博士和Dave Coates博士（在项目的后9个月）。2021年7月，莱德伯里诗歌节将举办一个由讲习班、小组讨论的公共活动、驻场编辑和一对一指导组成的评论家驻场活动。2021年1月通过申请选出的最多30位评论家将参加该计划，以及来自知名组织的合作伙伴和编辑，如伦敦书籍评论，诗歌评论（诗歌协会），泰晤士文学副刊，苏格兰BAME作家网络，前进艺术基金会，传播世界，文学威尔士和较小的出版平台，如Ambit，诗歌伦敦，诗歌威尔士，Wasafiri等。2005年，在主要出版社出版的英国诗人中，黑人或亚洲人不到1%；到2017年，这一比例上升到16%（《自由诗歌》报告，《传播世界》），这是由《全集》（2007-2017）等计划引领的更广泛的文化转变的一部分，该计划是针对黑人和亚洲诗人的指导计划。2017年，帕尔玛与T.S.艾略特奖得主、诗人和评论家莎拉·豪共同创立了莱德伯里诗歌评论家指导计划，为BAME诗歌评论家提供指导。莱德伯里的创始报告发现，英国报纸和杂志中只有3%的诗歌评论家是非白人。自成立以来，LPC已经在英国指导了12位诗歌评论家，在美国指导了4位诗歌评论家，目前正在与当地合作伙伴开发一个爱尔兰评论家项目。莱德伯里2020年关于诗歌文化多样性的报告《诗歌和诗歌批评的现状》显示，LPC项目由有色人种评论家撰写的诗歌评论增加了两倍——现在英国发表的近10%的诗歌评论是由非白人评论家撰写的。但要使诗歌批评和评论具有包容性和多样性，还需要做更多的工作。评论家驻留将持续五天，包括：评论家主导的关于评论语言和种族的研讨会；讲习班侧重于发展实用的评论写作技巧；提供更多机会让个人就检讨提出意见；如何向编辑推销的指导；通过与委托编辑建立联系建立个人资料的机会；回顾任务和个人写作时间。全年的有偿编辑实习将通过联合制作一期杂志或期刊的方式，让评论家与编辑合作发展编辑技能。从评论家到委托编辑的职业发展路线是诗歌批评EDI工作的重要组成部分。编辑还必须来自不同的文化背景。到目前为止，有六位莱德伯里评论家成为了《泰晤士报》、《牛津诗歌》、《诗歌学院》、《文化》和《Ambit》的编辑。就该项目的定量方面而言，通过数据衡量包容性对于衡量英国诗歌评论的进展和改进领域至关重要。该项目将利用现有的研究方法开发一种行业范围内的自我报告标准方法。到2021年9月，将向英国诗歌文化的读者、评论家和研究人员提供一个可访问和受保护的数据库。为了确保数据的准确性和可靠性，将与编辑、艺术政策组织、统计学家和评论家协商，共享和完善这些扩大的定量指标，并制定年度报告和同行审计方法。该数据库已经存储了2009-2019年的匿名数据，将由利物浦新国际写作中心永久维护。

项目成果

The State of Poetry and Poetry Criticism 2022

2022 年诗歌现状与诗歌批评

• 发表时间: 2022
• 作者: Parmar S