The next Poets and Critics Symposium will be devoted to the work of Bhanu Kapil, in collaboration with Bastien Goursaud and Université de Picardie.
Thursday 14 and Friday 15 November, 2024.
Université Paris Cité, Bâtiment Olympe de Gouges, 8 rue Albert Einstein, 75013 Paris
9:45 am-5 pm, room OdG 830 (8th floor of the Olympe de Gouges Building)
How to get there?
For detailed instructions and directions, click HERE.
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double change Poetry reading with Bhanu Kapil, Nadid Belaatik & Catherine WeinzaepflenThursday 14 November, 7pm
atelier Michael Woolworth, 2 rue de la Roquette, Passage du Cheval Blanc, Cour Février, 75011 Paris M° Bastille. How to get there? For detailed instructions and directions, click HERE.
Thus far, we have focused on the writer’s own (creative and critical) work on the first day of the P&C symposiums and on broader issues of poetics and practice-based criticism on the second day. But there’s no specific preconceived program for the 2 days of the symposium: as the previous sessions of the program have shown, it seems important to let the conversation take its own course.
Please note that the morning session of the first day is devoted to preparing the conversation with Bhanu Kapil which will take place during the afternoon session and the second day.
Bhanu Kapil will be joining the group at 2pm on Thursday 14 November.
As usual, we intend to address all aspects of our guest’s work.
Please feel free to make suggestions as to particular books that you would like to discuss during the symposium.
Our Thursday afternoon session with Bhanu Kapil should end by 6 pm, which will leave ample time for everybody to get to the poetry reading.
Photo from a performance at The Horse Hospital in London, © Bhanu Kapil, 2023.
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Bhanu Kapil, FRSL is the author of six full-length collections: The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers (Kelsey Street Press, 2001), Incubation: a space for monsters (Leon Works, 2006), humanimal [a project for future children] (Kelsey Street Press, 2009), Schizophrene (Nightboat, 2011), Ban en Banlieue (Nightboat, 2015), and How to Wash a Heart (Liverpool University Press, 2020).Two new, non-identical editions of Incubation (out of print for seven years in the U.S.) were published by Prototype (UK) and Kelsey Street Press (USA) in 2023. Bhanu is based now in Cambridge, where she is an Extraordinary Fellow of Churchill College, thinking and writiing [with] [near] [beneath] the archive of Enoch Powell. She has been awarded a Cholmondeley Award, a Windham-Campbell Prize and the T.S. Eliot Prize. For twenty years, she taught seminars in experimental writing, performance, and ritual at Naropa University. Current manuscripts include a novel, The Secret Garden, and an unpublishable work of creative non-fiction, Promiscuity.
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Full-length works:
Incubation: a space for monsters, Prototype, 2023 (UK) and Kelsey Street Press, 2023 (USA)
How To Wash A Heart, Liverpool University Press, 2020
Ban en Banlieue, Nightboat Books, 2016
Schizophrene, Nightboat Books, 2011
Humanimal [a project for future children], Kelsey Street Press, 2009
Incubation: a space for monsters, Leon Works, 2007 (out of print)
The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers, Kelsey Street Press, 2001
Chapbooks/Pamphlets:
THREADS (co-written with Sandeep Parmar and Nisha Ramayya), Clinic Publishing, 2018
Entre-Ban, Vallum Press, 2017
Treinte Ban: notes for a novel never written, New Herring Press, 2013
(a poem-essay, or precursor: NOTES: for a novel: Ban en Banlieues), Belladonna Press, 2010
THE BODY THAT DOESN’T BELONG TO YOU ANYMORE, [2nd Floor Projects], 2008
Water-damage: a map of three black days, Corollary Press, 2007
The Wolfgirls of Midnapure, Belladonna Press, 2002
Autobiography of a Cyborg, Leroy Press, 2000
Critical Bibliography
Beer, John. “The SRPR Review Essay: To Write the Larger Scene: Notes on the New Political Lyric.” The Spoon River Poetry Review, vol. 41, no. 2, 2016, pp. 106–123.
Belsare, Akash. “Feralizing the Human/Animal Distinction in Bhanu Kapil’s Humanimal.” Contemporary Literature, vol. 61, no. 3, 2020, pp. 362–387.
Berlant, Lauren. “My Dark Places.” Duke University Press, Durham, NC, June 2022, pp. 149–174.
Brady , Andrea. Radical Tenderness: Poetry in Times of Catastrophe. Cambridge University Press, Aug. 2024.
Colby, Georgina. “Housing the Stranger: Feminist Sheltering in the Work of Bhanu Kapil.” Contemporary Literature, vol. 64, no. 1, 2023, pp. 24–51.
Defalco, Amelia. Curious Kin in Fictions of Posthuman Care. Oxford University Press, July 2023.
Dick, Jennifer K. “The Dissenting Red Self: Lyn Hejinian’s Tribunal, Anne Carson’s Autobiography of Red & Bhanu Kapil’s Incubation: A Space for Monsters” in Couleurs et Cultures / Colors and Cultures: Interdisciplinary Explorations, eds. Sami Ludwig, Astrid Starck-Adler & André Karliczek. Jena, Salana, 2022. ISBN: 978-3-00-073026-9. (364 p), pp. 143-152.
Dick, Jennifer K. “The Nonsingular Self: A study of Bhanu Kapil and Eleni Sikelianos’ Poetic Autobiographical Writing” in Vulnerability and Radicality in Contemporary British and American Autobiographies, eds. Nelly Monk & Aude Haffen. Presses Universitaires de Bordeaux, 2025 (forthcoming).
Dowling, Sarah. “They Were Girls: Animality and Poetic Voice in Bhanu Kapil’s Humanimal.” American Quarterly, vol. 65, no. 3, 2013 Sept. 2013, pp. 735–755. https://doi.org/10.1353/aq.2013.0039.
Grimmer, C. R., and Kate Rose. “Bhanu Kapil’s Schizophrene Poetics: Disability, Dispossession, and Diaspora.” Routledge, New York, NY, Apr. 2020, pp. 39–55.
Kocher, Ruth Ellen. “F/fabula A/anima: Reading Bhanu Kapil’s ‘Writing/Not-Writing: Th[a][e] Diasporic Self: Notes towards a Race Riot.’” English Language Notes, vol. 50, no. 1, 2012, pp. 47–53.
Lee, Sueyeun Juliette, and Timothy Yu. “Trauma and the Avant-Garde.” Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England, May 2021, pp. 132–146.
Mitchell, K. Bellamy, et al. “‘A Historian of the Soft Tissue’: An Interview with Bhanu Kapil.” Palgrave Macmillan (Cham, Switzerland), Cham, Switzerland, Aug. 2024, pp. 585–594.
Quaid, Andrea. “Continuity and Change: Experimental Women’s Writing and the Epic Tradition.” ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global, University of California, Santa CruzProQuest, vol. 75, no. 8, 2015 Feb. 2015.
Ramayya, Nisha. “Curve Warp Corpse.” Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry, vol. 12, no. 1, Apr. 2020. https://doi.org/10.16995/.
Sengupta, Shalini. “‘Enabling Entanglements’: Rethinking Modernist Difficulty in the Sixth Extinction.” Modernism/Modernity, vol. 7, no. 2 [Online section], 7 Oct. 2022.
Singh, Julietta. “Errands for the Wild.” South Atlantic Quarterly, vol. 117, no. 3, 2018 July 2018, pp. 567–580. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-6942159.
Voris, Linda. “‘The Curious Props’: Placing Memory in Recent Experimental Writing.” West Branch, vol. 82, 2016, pp. 72–78.
Wang, Dorothy, et al. “Speculative Notes on Bhanu Kapil’s Monstrous/Cyborgian/Schizophrenic Poetics.” Kelsey Street Press, Berkeley, CA, Nov. 2015, pp. 78–91.
Yu, Timothy, et al. Nests and Strangers: On Asian American Women Poets. Kelsey Street Press, Nov. 2015.
Please contact us if you wish to share an essay or text about Bhanu Kapil’s work.
The Poets & Critics symposium on Bhanu Kapil’s work is organized in collaboration with the CERCLL Research Center of Université de Picardie Jules Verne
