Marc Botha and Heather Yeung are PhD students at the University of Durham, UK. Between 2006 and 2009 Marc held a Durham Doctoral Fellowship, and is currently completing a thesis entitled ‘The Persistence of Minimalism: An Atopian Poetics’. Heather’s PhD project is funded by the AHRC and is entitled ‘The Geometry of Space in Contemporary British Poetry’. Cosmopoetics is an on-going project that they envisage to be a constantly evolving platform for new work, events, criticism, theory and creation in contemporary poetry and poetics.
