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Simon Smith
BA (Kent)
| Lecturer | Year Abroad Programme, Europe (autumn, 2010) |
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| Phone: 01227 (82)3423 | Office: NC 5 |
| Email: s.smith-376@kent.ac.uk |
My main interest is writing poetry, and my latest collection is London Bridge, of which Michael Schmidt has remarked, ‘Simon Smith has an instinct for unexpected forms which wring from his language memorable registers and tones.’ The American poet Bill Berkson said, ‘[this] book is really zinging.’ Three earlier full-length collections are: Fifteen Exits, Reverdy Road and Mercury. In 2009 I was a Hawthornden Writing Fellow; from 1991 to 2007, I worked at the Poetry Library in London. I was a judge of the National Poetry Competition in 2004, and in 2009 was chair of the judging panel for the Canterbury Festival Poetry Competition. I have written reviews and essays on poetry for Poetry Review and PN Review, and my translations of poems by Pierre Reverdy, Martial and Catullus, have appeared in Poetry Review, PN Review and Stand. I am interested in teaching all forms of creative writing, collaborative writing, American poetry and poetics, literary translation and translation theory.
Research Supervision:
I am interested in supervising research in the following areas of creative writing: lyric poetry, avant-garde poetry, poem sequences, prose poems, poetry translation.
Teaching:
Undergraduate
EN326: Prose: Theory and Practice (Stage 1)
EN327: Poetry: Theory and Practice (convenor) (Stage 1)
EN614 Individual Writing Project (Stage 2)
Postgraduate
EN892: Poetry 1 (convenor)
EN812: Creative Writing Project (Spring term 2011)
EN***: Revisoning: 21st Century Translation
Books:
London Bridge (Salt Publications, 2010) http://www.saltpublishing.com/books/smp/9781844714902.htm
Browning Variations (Landfill, 2009)
Telegraph Cottage [with Felicity Allen] (Mindmade, 2007)
Mercury (Salt Publications, 2006) http://www.saltpublishing.com/books/smp/1844712540.htm
Reverdy Road (Salt Publications, 2003) http://www.saltpublishing.com/books/smp/1844710270.htm
Fifteen Exits (Waterloo Press, 2001) http://people.brunel.ac.uk/~enstaab2/
Books of Translation:
Notice to Quit by Gaius Valerius Catullus (Verisimilitude)
My Heart Is In My Pocket: Poems by Pierre Reverdy (Verisimilitude)
Some recent chapters and articles:
‘The Flaneur: Catullus, Martial and Frank O’Hara,’ PN Review 184, November-December 2008
‘Close-up: Blank Verse and the Conversation Poem,’ Poetry News, Spring 2008
‘How to Write Poetry,’ PBS Bulletin, Spring 2008, Issue 216
‘Of Metaphysics and Kitchen Sinks,' PN Review 178, Volume 34 Number 2, November-December 2007