Literary criticism
As an academic and critic, I am particularly interested in twentieth-century and contemporary British and American poetry, prose poetry, ekphrasis, word-image relationships, hybrid forms of writing, and how Creative Writing and English Literature intertwine.
My most recent book chapter is on the ekphrastic prose poem, in Prose Poetry in Theory and Practice. ed. Anne Caldwell and Oz Hardwick (Routledge, 2022):
My research has been published in scholarly journals, such as Axon and Writing in Practice, and I have given papers at notable conferences such as the National Association of Writers in Education (NAWE) and Great Writing.
I have had articles published on a diverse range of writers including Ted Hughes, Wilfred Owen, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Seamus Heaney, Michael Symmons Roberts, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Marguerite Porete.
My current book project is on recent and contemporary developments in ekphrastic practice. The title is Beyond Ekphrasis: Dynamic Interactions Between the Poet and the Image (forthcoming by Vernon Press).
Online articles:
Writing a poetry collection during lockdown
Poetry and the Affirmation of Life
Wilfred Owen and the Poetry of Trauma
The Enduring Appeal of the Sonnet Form
Omphalos: A Return to the Source of Poetry
Poetry Responding to Art: Contemporary Ekphrasis
Dim the lights for spoken word