Emily Critchley
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Emily Critchley is an experimental writer and academic. She is the winner of the John Kinsella-Tracy Ryan prize for poetry (2004) and the Jane Martin Prize for Poetry (2011).
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Critchley gained a BA from the University of Oxford,University of Greenwich profile an MA in Modern and Contemporary Poetry at Bristol University and a PhD, titled ‘[D]oubts, Complications and Distractions: Rethinking the Role of Women in Language Poetry’ from the University of Cambridge. In 2004 she won the John Kinsella-Tracy Ryan prize for poetry and in 2011 was joint winner of the national Jane Martin Prize for Poetry.
Critchley’s writing has been compared to that of Leslie Scalapino, Mina Loy and Denise Riley
. She is an Early Career Researcher who has already earned an international reputation as both a writer and feminist critic, specializing in American, women’s literature. She has been performing her work across the UK and the USA since 2000.
In 2006, she organised a three day, international conference for contemporary experimental women’s writing at the University of Cambridge and another in 2010 at the University of Greenwich. She is currently editing the sequel to the poetry anthology, Out of Everywhere : Linguistically Innovative Poetry by Women in North America & the UK, due out with Reality Street Press in 2012. Critchley is also a visual artist and musician.
She is currently a professor at the University of Greenwich. She lives in London.
Background
Critchley was born in Athens, Greece and grew up in Dorset, England. Her father was a landscape architect. Her mother is Greek and Critchley was surrounded by Greek as a child. The poet played piano as a child. She states that her influences include T. S. EliotT. S. Eliot
Thomas Stearns "T. S." Eliot OM was a playwright, literary critic, and arguably the most important English-language poet of the 20th century. Although he was born an American he moved to the United Kingdom in 1914 and was naturalised as a British subject in 1927 at age 39.The poem that made his...
, the Language poets
Language poets
The Language poets are an avant garde group or tendency in United States poetry that emerged in the late 1960s and early 1970s...
, Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Stein was an American writer, poet and art collector who spent most of her life in France.-Early life:...
, John Berryman
John Berryman
John Allyn Berryman was an American poet and scholar, born in McAlester, Oklahoma. He was a major figure in American poetry in the second half of the 20th century and was considered a key figure in the Confessional school of poetry...
and Ezra Pound
Ezra Pound
Ezra Weston Loomis Pound was an American expatriate poet and critic and a major figure in the early modernist movement in poetry...
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Critchley gained a BA from the University of Oxford,University of Greenwich profile an MA in Modern and Contemporary Poetry at Bristol University and a PhD, titled ‘[D]oubts, Complications and Distractions: Rethinking the Role of Women in Language Poetry’ from the University of Cambridge. In 2004 she won the John Kinsella-Tracy Ryan prize for poetry and in 2011 was joint winner of the national Jane Martin Prize for Poetry.
Critchley’s writing has been compared to that of Leslie Scalapino, Mina Loy and Denise Riley
Denise Riley
Denise Riley is an English poet and philosopher who began to be published in the 1970s. Her poetry is remarkable for its paradoxical interrogation of selfhood within the lyric mode. Her critical writings on motherhood, women in history, identity, and philosophy of language, are recognised as an...
. She is an Early Career Researcher who has already earned an international reputation as both a writer and feminist critic, specializing in American, women’s literature. She has been performing her work across the UK and the USA since 2000.
In 2006, she organised a three day, international conference for contemporary experimental women’s writing at the University of Cambridge and another in 2010 at the University of Greenwich. She is currently editing the sequel to the poetry anthology, Out of Everywhere : Linguistically Innovative Poetry by Women in North America & the UK, due out with Reality Street Press in 2012. Critchley is also a visual artist and musician.
She is currently a professor at the University of Greenwich. She lives in London.
Published works
- The Dirt Glitch Land Alter Affair (Cambridge: Arehouse, 2003)
- How to make Millions (Cambridge: Arehouse, 2004)
- I just want you to know that we can still be friends (Intercapillary Space, 2005)
- When I say I Believe Women… (London: bad press, 2006)
- Of All the Surprises (Switzerland: Dusie, 2007)
- Who handles one over the Backlash (Norfolk: Oystercatcher press, 2008)
- Hopeful For Love Are Th’ Impoverish’d Of Faith (Southampton: Torque press, 2010)
- Love / All That / & OK: Selected Writing (London: Penned in the MarginsPenned in the MarginsPenned in the Margins is an independent publisher and live literature producer. Based in London, it specialises in contemporary poetry and spoken word, but operates across all artforms.-Background:...
, 2011) - Sonnets for Luke (Liverpool: Holdfire press, 2011)
- IMAGINARYLOVEPOEMS (Paris: Corrupt Press, 2011)
- This is not a True Thing (London: Intercapillary Press, 2011)
External links
- University of Greenwich staff profile
- Critchley profile at A-gender
- Interview (video) 6 October 2010, The other room (8 minutes)
- Profile and audio files of poems at Authors of the now
- Morris, Marianne (2011). "A Starling for Morning’: critical irony and gender in Emily Critchley’s Love / All That / & OK", The Claudius App, 1.
- Spence, Steve (2011). "Added to the Mix", Stride Magazine. Critichley review
- " 'Moi aussi, Marianne' or Moving the Targets, being a crypto-ironic response, etc." by Emily Critchley, The Claudius App 1 (August 2011)
- Emily Critchley, "Post-Marginal Positions: Women & the UK Experimental/Avant-Garde Poetry Community", Jacket magazine, #34 (October 2007).