sam dodd

I work with land and literature. Landworker at Spitalfields City Farm, Ops Manager at the Poetry Translation Centre, experienced community workerarts administrator, & writing mentor.

I am a writer, with surrealist work appearing in Lumpen: Journal of Working Class Writing; poetry and prose in multiple grassroots zines and journals; and biographical pieces in community anthologies. My Substack series is called The Edgelands.

As a researcher I have received awards for my research and published papers. My areas of interest include: writer development, access to the arts, information access, radical & community histories, public & prison libraries, spatial justice, city farms, counter-mapping, land access, and psychogeography.

From 2014-2024 I managed CityLife: Stories for Change, an intergenerational community life-writing project; and from 2022-2025 I served on the board of Spread the Word writer’s charity

Please navigate to the menu to find out more about each of my areas of work.

The Edgelands: Body As Edgeland

Or, what it was really all about: love.

Welcome to Edgelands post #6. We are walking the edgelands, looking at the body as an edgeland both physical and metaphorical, the changing seasons, the who and why of edgelands, liminal spaces as healing spaces where we meet both others and ourselves, and physical pain as surrender. Artworks by others feature, beautiful poetry too, and something from me about what my body is to me.

Today is the first day of my residency at House of Annetta, so more is to come. For now, click the button below.

Image credit: Ana Mendieta, Silueta Works in Iowa, 1976-1978, by Richard Saltoun. Found here.

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