Outputs (6)

Kinepoetics: an embodied journey through poetry, dance and therapy (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

What follows is a transcript of a kinepoetic lecture – an improvised, structured talk-dance/movement-lecture – delivered by the author on the 19 March 2024 as his inaugural professorial lecture at the University of Salford. The performance was introd... Read More about Kinepoetics: an embodied journey through poetry, dance and therapy.

‘corporeal, raging’: Body Work in New Writing from the North of Ireland (2024)
Journal Article

Each academic year, I begin a seminar on my final year module, Alternative Ulster, with a broad prompt to get us talking – tell me what comes to mind when you think about the body in Northern Ireland/The North of Ireland. They begin to respond after... Read More about ‘corporeal, raging’: Body Work in New Writing from the North of Ireland.

Failsafe: a choreography (2024)
Book

Failsafe: A Choreography by Scott Thurston offers an entrancing fusion of movement and language, inviting readers into a kinetic journey where poetry and dance entwine. Each phrase pulses with energy, unraveling the body in motion, while the rhythm o... Read More about Failsafe: a choreography.

Inarticulacy in Creative Writing Practice and Translation: Where Language Thickens (2024)
Book

Inarticulacy in Creative Writing Practice and Translation: Where Language Thickens breaks new ground, investigating the initiation and furthering of academic thought in creative writing research and practice and in the processes, products and theorie... Read More about Inarticulacy in Creative Writing Practice and Translation: Where Language Thickens.

Global Literature and the Environment (2024)
Book

Global Literature and the Environment analyses literatures from across the world that connect readers to the localized impacts of the climate and ecological emergencies. The book contextualizes ecological breakdown within the history of imperialist-c... Read More about Global Literature and the Environment.

“Our air, our water, our Earth”: Trans-corporeality and Toxic Bodies in Twin Peaks: The Return (2024)
Journal Article

This article offers an ecocritical reading of David Lynch’s and Mark Frost’s Twin Peaks: The Return (2017). Within The Return, Lawrence Jacoby (Russ Tamblyn) claims that “our air, our water, our Earth—the very soil itself—our food, [and] our bodies [... Read More about “Our air, our water, our Earth”: Trans-corporeality and Toxic Bodies in Twin Peaks: The Return.