Metre and Memorisation – Brigstow Institute

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Collaborating on the Brigstow Metre and Memorisation Project

Posted on 9th June 2022 by hello.brigstow

Literary research is, by and large, a solitary endeavour. Writing poems, which I also do, tends to be no more sociable. In both cases, the most important process of collaboration is a matter of second thoughts that happen when drafts are finished enough to be shared with peers and editors. … Read more

‘I summon up remembrance of things past’: responses to memorising poetry

Posted on 9th May 2022 by hello.brigstow

‘Metre and Memorisation’, a Brigstow institute project and a collaboration between English and Psychology academics, investigates how we learn poetry off by heart, and how it feels when we do. Along with psychology graduate Rebecca Jackson, I led a series of Zoom sessions last summer in which we asked participants… Read more

Bristol by Heart – The Awards

Posted on 5th August 2021 by hello.brigstow

The Metre and Memorisation Project, funded by the Brigstow Institute at the University of Bristol, announces the awards from the the Bristol by Heart poetry recitation contest in collaboration with Poetry by Heart The judges were much impressed by the range, enthusiasm, ambition and accomplishment of the different entries to… Read more

Metre and Memorisation call for participation

Posted on 21st May 2021 by hello.brigstow

Brigstow Institute Experimental Partnership “Metre and Memorisation” will be exploring different ways of learning poetry. What’s the best way to learn a poem? Is silent rote learning effective, or is it better to repeat things aloud, to visualise the poem’s content, or to move about when trying to memorise it?… Read more