Join us for REVERB, a site-specific writing workshop which will explore concepts related to collective memory, historicity and personal archives. Together, we will engage with the unique story of Pushkin House as well as the surrounding area of Bloomsbury, an area of social and literary significance. We will consider poetics and politics, narratives marginal to the historical record, and the ways in which the event is made manifest by different techniques and styles of writing. 

This event is fully booked. If you wish to be placed on the waiting list, please email Alisa Oleva by clicking the button below.

Using key texts and visual references as departure points, we will look at methods such as concrete poetry, psychogeography and frottage as ways of mapping and documenting experience. Through a series of short, informal exercises, participants will be encouraged to experiment, with a focus on process rather than outcome. All levels of experience are welcome. Refreshments and materials will be provided.

The session will be led by Bella Marrin (Fieldnotes Editor, artist and writer) & Elaine Tam (Fieldnotes Senior Editor, curator and writer).  

Fieldnotes is a biannual print journal publishing new writing and artworks with a focus on practices that work between disciplines and against type. The purpose of the journal is to provide a test site for ideas and research; a space for experimental modes and new prototypes. 

Fieldnotes Issue 3 was published in April 2022. This issue, titled ‘I is a crowd’, contains new writing and artwork from CAConrad & George Finlay Ramsay, Charlie Hawksfield, Yvonne, Angus McCrum, Peter Gizzi, McKenzie Wark, Kate Paul, Michelle Williams Gamaker, Georges Bataille & Rachelle Rahmé, Declan Wiffen, Rosa Barba, Travis Jeppesen, Robert Glück & Arnold J Kemp, Cecilia Pavón & Jacob Steinberg, George Lynch and Yuhan Shen. It is available to buy online here.