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BOUND/UNBOUND: Poetry Residency

A look at our intensive poetry residency and the poets behind it.

In March 2024, we held a week-long artist development residency for emerging poetry and spoken word writers. In collaboration with the National Centre for Writing, the residency offered a nurturing space in Ipswich’s historic County Library for the selected poets to experiment with their voices.

Over the course of the week, the group were invited to take part in talks and workshops with established poets and publishers, collaborate with fellow writers, and engage with the public, all culminating in a live poetry reading in the library space at the end of the week.

Since the residency, the poets have stayed in touch, even forming a collective named BOUND/UNBOUND. Open mic nights led by the collective, and held in the library, are currently in the works.

Meet the poets

Get to know the faces of the BOUND/UNBOUND collective.

Karl Knights

Karl is a poet, journalist, and essayist based in Suffolk. His work has appeared in The Guardian, The Poetry Review, and anthologised in 100 Queer Poems (Vintage), The Forward Book of Poetry 2024 and on the Poetry Foundation’s website. In 2021, Karl won a New Poets Prize. His debut pamphlet, Kin, appeared with The Poetry Business in 2022. His poems trace the shapes of disability, growing up and belonging.

Gabrielle Cracknell

Gabrielle is a poet from Ipswich. Her work has been published by Streetcake Magazine, Nottingham Poetry Exchange, Beir Bua Press and more. In 2021, she was shortlisted for Streetcake’s Experimental Writing Prize. She loves people watching and is currently working on a collection of poems about strangers she has spotted on public transport.

bitemarks

bitemarks is an award-winning writer, performance maker and visual/textile artist from Lancashire, based in Norwich. Her writing has been commissioned across the UK: in theatres, museums, schools, galleries, outdoors and online. She graduated with a masters in ‘writing for performance’ from the University of Cambridge. She makes work that is joyful, strange, messy, tender and full of love.

Phoebe Sung

Phoebe is a Chinese-British poet who delves into themes of identity and heritage. She writes under her Chinese name, Ming Ming. She is currently working on a collection about her recent voyage to China to find more of her birth family and where she came from.

Cameron Tricker

Cameron is a writer and actor from Thetford, Norfolk. His prose writing was shortlisted for the Writers and Artists Working-Class Writers’ Award, 2024. His writing grapples with themes such as class-consciousness and mental health. His debut pamphlet, New Modalities, is out now with poetry magazine Boats Against the Current.

Sarah Bethan-Hudis

Sarah is a queer writer from West Wales, now based in Norfolk. They are excited about writing place; exploring the ecology and emotions of everyday spaces. They are grateful to have been published by Poetry Wales, Horizon Magazine and more. Their poem Anderson’s Meadow, April 2020 was shortlisted for the 2022 Ginko Prize Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty Best Poem of UK Landscape.

To hear more about the BOUND/UNBOUND residency, check out our videos with Phoebe and Gabrielle about their experiences.