{"id":754,"date":"2014-08-01T09:20:37","date_gmt":"2014-08-01T08:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/?p=754"},"modified":"2017-04-20T12:48:07","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T11:48:07","slug":"vox-undergraduate-creative-writing-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/2014\/08\/01\/vox-undergraduate-creative-writing-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"VOX : Undergraduate creative writing conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Early June at the University of Kent saw the UK\u2019s first ever <a href=\"http:\/\/voxconference2014.wordpress.com\">creative writing undergraduate conference<\/a>, an event designed to provide ambitious and enthusiastic students of creative writing and literature an opportunity to present critical and creative work in their chosen field. Delegates from the universities of Warwick, Durham and East Anglia joined students from Kent to present on subjects such as poetic Jouissance, Jeremy Paxman\u2019s view on poetry, Heidegger\u2019s notion of Enframing, the innovative poetry of Niels Lyngs\u00f8 and the relation between word and image in the translation of poetry. The conference was lead by keynote speakers and poets Kate Duckney of UEA graduate creative writing program, Manchester-based performer Anna Percy and Faber &amp; Faber\u2019s Sam Riviere. An evening event held at The Parrot in town played host to the comedy stylings of Pierre-Pierre, of Edinburgh Fringe and Lattitude festivals fame, as well as local rapper \u2018H\u2019, a maverick of the mic with a passion for freestyling and was all introduced with readings by students from the School of English\u2019s Innovative and Avant Garde Poetry module. Vox 2014 was a day to remember for creative writing students at Kent and beyond, a milestone in academic co-operation at a higly formative pre-career stage.<\/p>\n<p>Conference review by Sam O&#8217;Hana-Grainger<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early June at the University of Kent saw the UK\u2019s first ever creative writing undergraduate conference, an event designed to provide ambitious and enthusiastic students &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/2014\/08\/01\/vox-undergraduate-creative-writing-conference\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2400,"featured_media":755,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,143219,124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2400"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=754"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":756,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754\/revisions\/756"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}