~ J. R. CARPENTER

~ bio ~ J. R. Carpenter is an award-winning artist, writer, teacher, and practice-led researcher working across performance, print, and digital media.
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An Ocean of Static in this debut poetry collection cartographic and maritime vernaculars inflected with the syntax and grammar of ships logs and code languages splinter and pulse across the page. Published by Penned in the Margins, 2018
GENERATION[S] a collection of code narratives published by TRAUMAWIEN, Vienna, 2010
The Gathering Cloud “…a poetic media meteorology: it shows the multiplicity of ways of writing about the sky, the digital cloud, and the climate changes that we are living through…” 2017
This is a Picture of Wind Part poetic almanac, part private weather diary, This is a Picture of Wind attempts to call attention to climate change by picturing through variations in language the disturbances and sudden absences left in the wake of wind. Longbarrow Press, June 2020
Words the Dog Knows a novel, winner of the Expozine Alternative Press Award for Best English Book, 2008

A Topographical Approach to Re-Reading Books about Islands in Digital Literary Spaces an open-access article published in MATLIT 4.1, 2016
Grappling With the Actual: Writing on the Periphery of the Real This essay considers literary realism in relation to two of recent works of digital literature: This is a Picture of Wind: A Weather Poem for Phones, and The Pleasure of the Coast: A Hydro-graphic Novel. EBR 2020
In the Event of a Variable Text an open access article published in Convergence 23.1, 2017
Performing Digital Texts in European Contexts commentary column published on Jacket2, 2010-2011
Writing Coastlines PhD thesis, submitted 2015
Writing on the Cusp of Becoming Something Else Chapter in Whose Book is it Anyway? EDITEDBY JANIS JEFFERIESAND SARAH KEMBER

Etheric Ocean commissioned by Electronic Voice Phenomena, an experimental literature and new media project exploring contemporary approaches to sound, voice, technology and writing, 2014.
Notes Very Necessary co-authored by Barbara Bridger, published by The New River, 2015
Once Upon a Tide published on The Junket, 2015
STRUTS commissioned by Brian Stefans for Third Hand Plays, Open Space, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2011.
The Gathering Cloud commissioned by NEoN Digital Arts Festival, winner of the New Media Writing Prize 2016
This is a Picture of Wind a weather poem for phones, 2018