Hello Goodbye Love: Workshop and Sharing with Sarah Jackson and Anthony Capildeo
Workshop
Event date
Friday 27 February 2026, 12pm to 1.30pm
Location
SLB/005, Spring Lane Building, Campus West, University of York (Map)
Admission
Free admission, booking not required
Event details
In an era of communication blackouts, infrastructural fragility, and mediated intimacy, how do we think and write about love? What kinds of messages circulate even when signals falter, and what forms of relation endure even when we are pulled ever farther apart?
In this workshop, we will explore care and connectivity through experimental writing that attends to both interruption and abundance. Alongside missed calls, delayed messages, fractured networks, and algorithmic noise, we will celebrate moments of unexpected kinship. No prior experience is required. The workshop welcomes participants from all disciplines and backgrounds who are interested in exploring how connections adapt, multiply, and resonate, even when the line is unstable.
Sarah Jackson is a poet and researcher who works at the intersections of writing, art and technology in order to address questions of social and environmental justice. Her current work focuses on geopoetics, displacement and ways of listening. An award-winning poet, BBC New Generation Thinker, NTU VC Outstanding Researcher, AHRC Leadership Fellow and founding director of Critical Poetics (2015 - 2024), Sarah is currently Vice Chancellor’s Fellow and Associate Professor in Arts & Environnment at Northumbria. Sarah’s publications include Pelt (Bloodaxe 2012; awarded the Seamus Heaney Prize for Poetry 2013); Tactile Poetics: Touch and Contemporary Writing (Edinburgh University Press, 2015); Unidentifiable Literary Objects, a special issue of parallax (2019), co-edited with Camilla Bostock; Literature and the Telephone: Conversations on Poetics, Politics and Place (Bloomsbury, 2023); Bunker: Stories and Poems from a Nuclear Age (Five Leaves, 2024), co-edited with Daniel Cordle; and Hold to Record: Voice Notes from Refugees, co-edited with Olja Mladjenovič (Palewell, 2025). Telepoetics, co-edited with Philip Leonard and Annabel Williams, is forthcoming from Edinburgh University Press in 2026. In 2021, her film Calling Across Borders, co-created with a group of young refugees, was shortlisted for the Best Research Film in the Research in Film Awards; her interactive sound installation Voice Notes, created with Hardi Kurda, has been exhibited in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, Nottingham, London and Ghent, and was selected for the PRS New Music Biennial 2025.
Anthony Capildeo is Writer in Residence at the University of York
(no sign up -- drop in when you can, stay as long as you like)
Venue details
Wheelchair accessible
Hearing loop