TERRACES: a choreography

Scott Thurston is a poet, mover and educator. He has published sixteen books and chapbooks of poetry, including three full-length collections with Shearsman. More recent work includes Phrases towards a Kinepoetics (Contraband, 2020) and Poems for the Dance (Aquifer, 2017). Thurston is the founding editor of open access Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry and co-organized the long-running poetry reading series The Other Room in Manchester. Since 2004, he has been developing a poetics integrating dance and poetry which has seen him studying with dancers in Berlin and New York and collaborating with dancers in the UK. Thurston is a Reader in English and Creative Writing at the University of Salford where he has taught since 2004. Twitter: @sco_thurston Work webpage: hps://www.salford.ac.uk/our-staff/sco-thurston