NEWS
Survey
October 2024
how clock shifts affect wellbeing and time perception
The end of October marks the end of British Summer Time. The After the End team want to understand how clock shifts affect wellbeing and time perception. Our survey launched in The Guardian on 21st October with a feature ‘Does mood lighten or darken as clocks go back? Britons urged to join study’.
The study is launched by Prof Ruth Ogden from the After the End team as part of research exploring how external disruptions can affect people’s sense of time.
BBC Radio 4 - interview with Prof. Ruth Ogden
You can listen to an interview with Ruth Ogden about how we perceive time as the clocks change, recorded on BBC Radio 4 PM programme on Monday 21st October. The interview starts at 51 minutes into the programme.
“I’m interested in trying to understand how it feels when your day-to-day sense of time is disrupted by an external force: do you feel like you’ve got more or less time, and higher or lower levels of wellbeing?” asks Ruth.
The survey is connected to the wider question of the relationship between time and power, and how when other people are in control of time, it can create various types of injustice for certain groups.
poetry
competition
The After the End poetry competition 2024 is now closed. The winners will be announced on the After the End website on 19th November.
Entries are currently being reviewed by our wonderful judging panel including award-winning poet Jenny Mitchell, literary agent Salma Begum, University of Exeter’s director of Liberal Arts Dr Michael Flexer and After the End researcher and Professor of Modern Literature and Medical Humanities Laura Salisbury.
This poetry competition invited creative responses from poets that critically engage with ideas of time and temporality and the question of who gets to say that something has ended.
The competition invited work from poets at every stage of their writing careers, recognising previously unpublished newcomers, established names, and emerging talents.
Poems were welcomed on any issue related to themes of time, temporality and endings and in any style.
The After the End Poetry Competition offers to winners a first prize of £750, second and third place winners will be offered £125 each. All three winners will be published on the After the End website, and poems may be shared on media channels connected to the After the End project.
Celebrating
National Poetry Day!
We celebrated National Poetry Day on 3rd October 2024 with a poem written by award-winning poet and one of our poetry competition judges, Jenny Mitchell.
“I was inspired to write this poem by the themes examined in the After the End project, namely who has the right to say when a crisis has ended. This resonated with me in particular because of my long-term creative determination to examine the legacies of British transatlantic enslavement.
The impact of that long-term abuse, both in the Caribbean and Britain, has undoubtedly had repercussions in terms of the financial (in)stability of the mass of Black people in the UK. Its impact can also be seen in terms of health, well-being, family dynamics, the criminal justice system and countless other ways.”
Poetry Workshop
23rd October 2024
Poetry, Time and the Question of Endings
Exeter University will be marking Black History Month with a workshop and talk from award-winning poet Jenny Mitchell.
Sponsored by the Wellcome-funded After the End project, a workshop on ‘Poetry, Time and the Question of Endings’ will take place on Wednesday 23 October from 1:00-3:30pm in the Boardroom.
This supportive, non-judgemental workshop is open to all – both new and experienced poets are welcome. Participants will be offered creative prompts and work by established poets to help them write and share their work with confidence. Light refreshments will be served.
An event sponsored by the Department of English and Creative Writing will follow the workshop: at 4pm in Newman Collaborative LT C/D. Jenny will perform poetry from her three collections and latest manuscript and take part in a Q&A; there will also be an open mic.
Jenny Mitchell is currently the Inaugural Poet-in-the-Community at the British Library, working with the Engagement Team. She’s recently been nominated as Best of the Net 2025, won the Ink, Sweat and Tears May 2024 Poetry Competition, the Shooter Poetry Competition in 2023, the Gregory O’Donoghue Prize in 2022 and the Poetry Book Awards in 2021 for her second collection, Map of a Plantation. The prize-winning debut collection, Her Lost Language, is one of 44 Poetry Books for 2019 (Poetry Wales), and her latest collection, Resurrection of a Black Man, contains three prize-winning poems and is featured on the US podcast Poetry Unbound. She was Poet-in-Residence at Sussex University in 2024, and Artist in Association at Birkbeck from 2021-22.
talkS
16th october 2024
Perceptions of the passage of time during periods of acute and chronic pain and its clinical implications
Professor Ruth Ogden, School of Psychology, Liverpool John Moore’s University, is giving a talk as part of an event at the Royal Society of Medicine ‘Pain management outside the box’.
This event features expert clinicians and researchers who will share their insights through compelling lectures on diverse topics in pain management
Poetry competition RUles
All entries must be formatted as a single-spaced word document or PDF.
Entries should be up to 5 pieces of poetry or a spoken word video performance
Each poetry piece should be no longer than 40 lines.
Spoken word video performance must be under 4 minutes total
Spoken Word submissions should be submitted in mp4 format via wetransfer.com to admin@ethox.ox.ac.uk. Please also send the poem in word or pdf in an email attachment to admin@ethox.ox.ac.uk.
All entries are judged anonymously, therefore, please do not include your name or any identifying information in the documents you upload. You should include this information only in the body of the email.
This is an international competition, and all entries must be in English.
All entries must be the entrant’s own original work, and must not have been generated, in whole or part, by a chatbot or other artificial intelligence.
The author must have the right to publish the poem on aftertheend.squarespace.com. The copyright remains with the author.
No corrections post-entry can be accepted.
The results of the competition will be published online and the decision of the judge(s) will be final.
No correspondence will be entered into regarding the judging process.
The closing date for entries is midnight (UK time) on 3rd October 2024. Winners will be notified by email four-six weeks after the closing dates.
Entries will not be eligible where the writer is part of the judging process, or anyone involved in the management/administration of the Prize, or a close family relative of any such person.
