Stephen McKibbin
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National Poetry Day – October 6th 2016
October 6, 2016
The theme of this year’s National Poetry Day is ‘messages’. Having recently relocated to Nottingham from Glasgow, I think of how messages can be interpreted the Scottish way, meaning ‘groceries’ (a celebration of poems about the supermarket – Allen Ginsberg would surely approve). The generosity of the theme is intriguing – for me, the theme …
Q&A with Svenja Adolphs, GRT Lead for Cultures and Communication
April 6, 2016
Taken from the Research Blog posted on April 1, 2016, by Michael Jennings This is the fourth of our monthly Q&As with our five Global Research Theme (GRT) leads, for you to find out about who they are, their research and what it means to lead one of the University’s five GRTs. Read previous Q&As …
Interpreting the Viking Age
March 31, 2016
This blog post was written by Judith Jesch, Professor of Viking Studies in the School of English. The Isle of Man, in the Irish Sea between Britain and Ireland, was conquered by Vikings in the ninth century, and it was ruled by Viking and Norse kings until the thirteenth century. It is now a self-governing Crown …
How Lovesick can you get?
March 23, 2016
This blog post was written by Michael Leahy, a Teaching Associate in the School of English. Today, a good deal of controversy surrounds the issue of medicalisation as an increasing amount of behaviours or complaints assume a medical character. Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, chronic fatigue syndrome and generalised anxiety disorder are all examples of conditions that …
Some thoughts on my poem Eight pieces in imitation of Thomas A. Clark published in Granta this Month
February 26, 2016
With most of my poems the writing process has been all about the drafting – crossing things out and jigging stuff around and starting again until eventually there is something I can’t improve on. Other times, though, it’s more like something I imagine a Zen monk might do – years of study and contemplation followed …
D. H. Lawrence and Work
February 5, 2016
This blog post was written by Dr Andrew Harrison, Assistant Professor in English Literature, from the School of English. On Wednesday 13 January 2016 I participated in a pre-show discussion at the National Theatre on the topic of ‘D. H. Lawrence and Work’. The event was scheduled to accompany its current production of Husbands and …
Are you a friend of Ron Carter?
January 29, 2016
I am eating delicious but unidentifiable sashimi, and looking out at the inside of the dormant caldera of a volcano. There is grass growing on the cold lava rock, and it feels like I am on top of a Bond villain’s lair. This is Kyushu, in Japan, and I’m here representing the university, a million …
Notes from research leave: close encounters with the book
January 26, 2016
I’m currently on research leave completing a couple of projects. One of these is a new, student-focused edition of Doctor Faustus, and my leave allows me time to visit the archives necessary for editorial work. We’re fortunate at Nottingham to have access to Early English Books Online (EEBO), a database containing thousands of scanned early …
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