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Arts for the Blues – a new creative psychological therapy for depression: a pilot workshop report (2019)
Journal Article
Haslam, S., Parsons, A., Omylinska-Thurston, J., Nair, K., Harlow, J., Lewis, J., …Karkou, V. (2019). Arts for the Blues – a new creative psychological therapy for depression: a pilot workshop report. Perspectives in Public Health, 139(3), 137-146. https://doi.org/10.1177/1757913919826599

Introduction: Research over the last decade has identified both strengths and limitations in the use of routinely prescribed psychological therapies for depression. More recently, a focus on creative art therapies, and 'art on prescription' are deve... Read More about Arts for the Blues – a new creative psychological therapy for depression: a pilot workshop report.

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.

Contemporary innovative poetry by women in the UK : Revoicing in the work of Holly Pester, SL Mendoza and Sophie Robinson (2015)
Journal Article
Thurston, S. (2015). Contemporary innovative poetry by women in the UK : Revoicing in the work of Holly Pester, SL Mendoza and Sophie Robinson. Contemporary Women's Writing, 9(1), 53-72. https://doi.org/10.1093/cww/vpu035

Until recently women’s position on the British innovative poetry scene has been difficult to say the least, often risking being “doubly excluded,” as an anonymous writer is quoted in the introduction to Maggie O’Sullivan’s crucial 1996 anthology Out... Read More about Contemporary innovative poetry by women in the UK : Revoicing in the work of Holly Pester, SL Mendoza and Sophie Robinson.

Figure detached figure impermanent (2014)
Book
Thurston, S. (2014). Figure detached figure impermanent. Old Hunstanton, Norfolk: Oystercatcher

A sequence of thirty prose poems

The pleasures of reification : Kelvin Corcoran's lyric lyric (2014)
Book Chapter
Thurston, S. (2014). The pleasures of reification : Kelvin Corcoran's lyric lyric. In A. Brown (Ed.), The Writing Occurs as Song: a Kelvin Corcoran Reader (125-138). Bristol: Shearsman Books

This chapter examines the use of the term 'reification' in Kelvin Corcoran's poetry and reflects on its relevance for understanding a poetics driven by a fascination for the history and material properties of writing.

Reverses heart's reassembly (2011)
Book
Thurston, S. (2011). Reverses heart's reassembly. London: Veer Books

A dance with and against sense, Scott Thurston’s sequence moves and stands still, opens and closes itself, around a core of thought sentience and heart’s risk. A bodywork of language, intimate and extimate - William Rowe.

Maggie O'Sullivan : states of transformation (2011)
Book Chapter
Thurston, S. (2011). Maggie O'Sullivan : states of transformation. In C. Hamilton-Emery (Ed.), The Salt Companion to Maggie O'Sullivan. Salt Publishing

Maggie O’Sullivan’s work has often been linked to the concept of shamanism, through her works’ own declared interest in it as well as by commentators. Nevertheless the application of this concept constructs a view of the work as somewhat ‘othered’ in... Read More about Maggie O'Sullivan : states of transformation.

Internal rhyme (2010)
Book
Thurston, S. (2010). Internal rhyme. Exeter UK: Shearsman Books

Internal Rhyme is a sequence in four parts which continues the author’s preoccupation with time and process as compositional elements. The book also explores how meaning can change when viewed from different perspectives as each poem in the book can... Read More about Internal rhyme.

Innovative poetry in Britain today (2010)
Journal Article
Thurston, S. (2010). Innovative poetry in Britain today. Revista canaria de estudios ingleses, 15-30

Innovative Poetry in Britain has undergone considerable change in how it is published and read in recent years. This article examines Richard Caddel and Peter Quartermain’s 1998 introduction to their anthology OTHER: British and Irish Poetry since 19... Read More about Innovative poetry in Britain today.

The poet as critic, criticism as poetics: on Barrett Watten and Robert Sheppard (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Thurston, S. (2009, June). The poet as critic, criticism as poetics: on Barrett Watten and Robert Sheppard. Presented at The Critic as Artist, The Artist as Critic, University of Lancaster

This paper was delivered to the conference 'The Critic as Artist, The Artist as Critic' at Lancaster University in June 2009. It performs a critical reading of a paper given by US Language Poet Barrett Watten at the Poetry and Public Language confere... Read More about The poet as critic, criticism as poetics: on Barrett Watten and Robert Sheppard.

Allen Fisher: reading 'Mummers' Strut' (2005)
Book Chapter
Thurston, S. (2005). Allen Fisher: reading 'Mummers' Strut'. In L. Blaim, & D. Malcolm (Eds.), Eseje o wspolczesnej poezji brytyjskiej I irlandzkiej (Essays on modern British and Irish poetry) (119-134). Gdansk, Poland: Wydaw/Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego (University of Gdansk Press)

Through the weather glass
Thesis
Burnett, L. Through the weather glass. (Thesis). University of Salford

This Creative Writing thesis argues for the need to rethink our understanding of climate change and focuses on the response of creative writers to this phenomenon, whilst also offering its own creative contribution. The critical component aims at art... Read More about Through the weather glass.

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.