Turning : selected poems 1995-2020 (2023)
Book
Thurston, S. (2023). Turning : selected poems 1995-2020. Shearsman Books

A selected poems volume covering 25 years of work

Dancing the Blues: An interdisciplinary collaboration between artists and therapists (2023)
Journal Article
Thurston, S., Griffin, J., Davismoon, S., Omylinska-Thurston, J., & Karkou, V. (2023). Dancing the Blues: An interdisciplinary collaboration between artists and therapists. Journal of Applied Arts and Health, 14(2), 159-174. https://doi.org/10.1386/jaah_00107_1

Creative practice differs widely across the contexts of artistic performance and therapy. In this article the authors describe a novel example of how the otherwise separate fields of choreographic practices and dance movement psychotherapy (DMP) have... Read More about Dancing the Blues: An interdisciplinary collaboration between artists and therapists.

The dance and movement work of Jennifer Pike Cobbing : economies of effort and vitality dynamics (2021)
Journal Article
Thurston, S. (2021). The dance and movement work of Jennifer Pike Cobbing : economies of effort and vitality dynamics. Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry, 13(1), 5. https://doi.org/10.16995/bip.3401

Jennifer Pike (1920-2016) was a major artist whose practice traversed the disciplines of painting, drawing, sculpture, textiles, ceramics, photography, jewellery-making, poetry and performance. Although a fuller appreciation of the scale and range of... Read More about The dance and movement work of Jennifer Pike Cobbing : economies of effort and vitality dynamics.

Phrases towards a Kinepoetics (2020)
Book
Thurston, S. (2020). Phrases towards a Kinepoetics. Brighton: Contraband

This sequence of twenty-five poems is the latest product of a sixteen-year process of integrating dance and movement into my poetic practice. The poems draw on the practice of Five Rhythms, Movement Medicine, Authentic Movement, Alexander Technique,... Read More about Phrases towards a Kinepoetics.

Allen Fisher : reading 'Mummers’ Strut' (2020)
Book Chapter
Thurston, S. (2020). Allen Fisher : reading 'Mummers’ Strut'. In C. Cheek, & R. Hampson (Eds.), The Allen Fisher Companion (134-162). Swindon: Shearsman Books

In 1995, Allen Fisher published a poem entitled ‘Mummers’ Strut’ in an issue of the magazine West Coast Line, accompanied by a statement of poetics. This essay offers a close reading of the poem by investigating its multiple sources alongside Fisher... Read More about Allen Fisher : reading 'Mummers’ Strut'.

Vital Signs : A Poem in Four Movements - 300 word statement (2019)
Other
Thurston, S., & Slee, S. (2019). Vital Signs : A Poem in Four Movements - 300 word statement. [Performance]

“For which we haven’t yet a satisfactory name” : the birth of Linguistically Innovative Poetry and the practice of a collective poetics in Robert Sheppard’s Pages and Floating Capital (2019)
Book Chapter
Thurston, S. (2019). “For which we haven’t yet a satisfactory name” : the birth of Linguistically Innovative Poetry and the practice of a collective poetics in Robert Sheppard’s Pages and Floating Capital. In C. Madden, & J. Byrne (Eds.), The Robert Sheppard Companion (36-59). Bristol: Shearsman Books

A detailed account of early editorial pieces by Robert Sheppard (b. 1955) - a major figure in Linguistically Innovative Poetry - in his magazine Pages - laying the theoretical groundwork for a new movement in poetry. The piece also consider Sheppard'... Read More about “For which we haven’t yet a satisfactory name” : the birth of Linguistically Innovative Poetry and the practice of a collective poetics in Robert Sheppard’s Pages and Floating Capital.

We must betray our potential (2018)
Book
Thurston, S. (2018). We must betray our potential. New Mills, Derbyshire: The Red Ceilings Press

We Must Betray Our Potential In these metaphysical dialogues between the dancing and linguistic self, Thurston circles questions of being, ‘self’-presence and identity. The temporality of dance – its fleeting, unrestricted movements – and the a... Read More about We must betray our potential.

Draft Vicinity (2018)
Book
Thurston, S. (2018). Draft Vicinity. Newton-le-Willows: The Knives Forks and Spoons Press

Book of short experimental lyric poems, several of them exploring the author's ongoing interest in the relationship between dance and poetry; movement and language. Cover endorsement: “All journeys”, said Martin Buber “have secret destinations... Read More about Draft Vicinity.

Poems for the dance (2017)
Book
Thurston, S. (2017). Poems for the dance. Llangattock, Powys: Aquifer Books

Containing an essay, and poems, occasioned by the author’s engagement with Five Rhythms and other improvised dance and movement practices over more than a decade, Poems for the Dance is a multi-faceted enquiry into the relationship between poetry and... Read More about Poems for the dance.

Vital signs : poetry, movement and the writing body (2017)
Journal Article
Thurston, S., & Slee, S. (2017). Vital signs : poetry, movement and the writing body. Choreographic Practices, 8(1), 9-25. https://doi.org/10.1386/chor.8.1.9_1

This article outlines a collaborative enquiry between a dancer and a poet. It considers some past and present collaborations between poets and dancers before framing the authors’ interest in the traditions of North American Post-modern dance and Euro... Read More about Vital signs : poetry, movement and the writing body.

Terraces : a choreography
Book
Thurston, S. Terraces : a choreography. Co. Tipperary: Beir Bua press

This eighty poem sequence emerges as the latest product of my eighteen-year enquiry into the relationship between dance and poetry. I think of it as a kind of written choreography, or kinepoetics – a term I’ve adapted from the dance scholar Suzanne B... Read More about Terraces : a choreography.

‘Need keeps the book of dying open’ : negative capability in Gil Ott’s The Whole Note
Presentation / Conference
Thurston, S. ‘Need keeps the book of dying open’ : negative capability in Gil Ott’s The Whole Note. Presented at Ambiguity and the search for meaning : English and American studies at the beginning of the 21st century (Eleventh International Conference), Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland

This paper was delivered at the Conference 'Ambiguity and the Search for Meaning' at the Jagiellonian University, Institute of English Philology, Krakow, Poland, April 2008. It explores the work of Gil Ott (1950-2004): poet, writer and publisher asso... Read More about ‘Need keeps the book of dying open’ : negative capability in Gil Ott’s The Whole Note.

‘I is an other’ : encountering the self as other in expressive arts practice
Presentation / Conference
Thurston, S. ‘I is an other’ : encountering the self as other in expressive arts practice. Presented at 2nd International Arts in Healthcare Event - Arts, Creativity and the Global Crisis: Reimagining Identity, Otherness and the Possible, Pratt Institute, New York, United States of America

This paper was delivered at the 2nd International Arts in Healthcare Event – Arts, Creativity and the Global Crisis: Reimagining Identity, Otherness and the Possible, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York, 4th-6th October 2019 In 1871, the poet Ar... Read More about ‘I is an other’ : encountering the self as other in expressive arts practice.