All Outputs (17)

Song for a scar (2022)
Journal Article

One poem in a special issue of the journal on the theme of "Care"

Extract from "More on the Plums" with synopsis (2022)
Journal Article

Five poems, extracted from my longer sequence "More on the Plums", accompanied by a synopsis of the composition/methodology.

Extract from "More on the Plums" (2022)
Journal Article

One poem from a pamphlet-length sequence.

Flash mob (2022)
Journal Article

One poem accepted by The Alchemy Spoon for a "Fixed Form" themed issue.

Extract from "More on the Plums" (2021)
Journal Article

One poem, extracted from my longer sequence "More on the Plums".

Birmingham as “composite monster”: Roy Fisher’s city (1961) (2021)
Book Chapter

Roy Fisher (1930–2017) was a major figure in British poetry, with a body of work which bridged the gap between mainstream and modernist writing. A significant artist of English urban space, Fisher’s work insistently returned to his exploration of Bir... Read More about Birmingham as “composite monster”: Roy Fisher’s city (1961).

Wires, mirrors, tricks of the light: Zoë Skoulding and lyric poetry (2021)
Book Chapter

In this discussion, the earlier poetry of Zoë Skoulding is analyzed as a case study for an expanded sense of the contemporary lyric genre. Through a fixation on visual apparatuses including eyes, lenses, binoculars, and mirrors, Skoulding’s The Mirro... Read More about Wires, mirrors, tricks of the light: Zoë Skoulding and lyric poetry.

Introduction: Situating contemporary poetry (2021)
Book Chapter

The Yearbook of English Studies for 2021 examines contemporary poetry from Britain and Ireland. Edited by Samuel Rogers, the volume contains fourteen essays exploring a range of poetry from 1980 and the present. Poetry continues to be a dynamic cultu... Read More about Introduction: Situating contemporary poetry.

Extract from "More on the Plums" (2021)
Journal Article

One poem, extracted from my longer sequence "More on the Plums".

An annotated homecoming (2019)
Journal Article

Review of The Poems of Basil Bunting edited by Don Share. Faber & Faber, 2016.

Gale Researcher Guide for: Britain's Languages and Regional Literatures: The Case of Hugh MacDiarmid (2018)
Book

C. M. Grieves played a crucial role in Scottish public life and, under his famous pseudonym — Hugh MacDiarmid — produced some of the world’s most important poetry of the first half of the twentieth century. MacDiarmid is best known for his innovation... Read More about Gale Researcher Guide for: Britain's Languages and Regional Literatures: The Case of Hugh MacDiarmid.

Gale Researcher Guide for: Britain's Languages and Regional Literatures: The Case of R. S. Thomas (2018)
Book

R. S. Thomas was one of the major British poets of the twentieth century. He is particularly celebrated in his native Wales, and his poetry is recognized as vital for defining and contesting Welsh nationhood, history, landscape, and identity. While h... Read More about Gale Researcher Guide for: Britain's Languages and Regional Literatures: The Case of R. S. Thomas.

Under Mercia (2017)
Journal Article

Review of Eric Falci, The Cambridge Introduction to British Poetry 1945–2010. Cambridge University Press, 2015.

Transatlantic or nomadic? Lyric voice in Lee Harwood’s The Man with Blue Eyes (1966) (2017)
Journal Article

This article focuses on The Man with Blue Eyes (New York: Angel Hair Books, 1966), the second collection of poems by English poet Lee Harwood. Although it is one of the few Harwood publications to appear outside the UK, it signals a vital, long-term... Read More about Transatlantic or nomadic? Lyric voice in Lee Harwood’s The Man with Blue Eyes (1966).

'Local site and historical depth': Briggflatts, A Drunk Man, and British Modernist poetics of place (2016)
Journal Article

© The Author 2016. This article aims to present new understandings of how place, identity, and text are configured in British modernist poetry, particularly in the extended poem. Focusing chiefly on Basil Bunting's Briggflatts (1966), the discussion... Read More about 'Local site and historical depth': Briggflatts, A Drunk Man, and British Modernist poetics of place.

to be (2015)
Journal Article

One poem.

Report on the 2021 networking event “Close reading, open minds: Literature for health and wellbeing”
Report

In March 2021, an emerging group of researchers at UWE Bristol organized a virtual symposium, aiming to establish a network of collaborators and work towards fundable projects. The event fostered collaboration between arts and science disciplines to... Read More about Report on the 2021 networking event “Close reading, open minds: Literature for health and wellbeing”.