Towards an archive of Revoicing Medieval Poetry

What does it mean to re-voice early medieval poetry – or the early medieval past in poetry – today? Who can revoice, or, rather, who gets to revoice? And where can we revoice the medieval, in what place(s)? This collaborative essay reflects on an ongoing series of workshops and creative-critical events, ‘Revoicing Medieval Poetry’, that Allfrey, Brooks and Kears have developed between London, York and Reading from 2022. The aim was to bring together poets, artists, and practitioners and their research – and their relationship to medievalist research and creative practice – to share and workshop in-progress projects. By demanding that we move beyond thinking about straightforward or linear relations between old and new poetries, and by seeing what happens when we think beyond distinctions between creative and critical practices, how might the Revoicing project become a more accessible and in-process archive and community for Medieval Studies?