Two of the Department’s published poets, Gareth Reeves and his PhD student John Clegg, explore how their writing of poetry relates to their research.
They explain how they began writing poetry rather than writing about poetry, and discuss how writing poetry gives them unique insights into the forms and methods employed in the work of other poets.
Find out more at READ: Research English At Durham.
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Rousing the vox populi in James Shirley’s The Politician
Birds and Embodiment in Shelley and Keats
The Autobiographical Pursuit of Happiness in Eighteenth-Century Literature
In Conversation with Jane Smiley
An Evening with T.S. Eliot
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To Hell with Paradise
The Poetry of W.B. Yeats
Celebrating the Brontës
Becoming Sea: A Blurred Lyric of the Ocean
Albion: The Brut Chronicle
Alfred the Great Through History
Tics in the Theatre: The 'Quiet Audience' and the Neurodivergent Spectator
Eugenics in Utopian Literature
When Masters Became Tragic Heroes
(S)he’s just not that into you: Resisting Love in Medieval Romance Literature
Registers of petition in the holograph manuscripts of Thomas Hoccleve
Poet Caroline Bird Speaks to the 98 Percent
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