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BA, MA London South Bank University
Dorothy Lehane is the author of three poetry publications: Umwelt (Leafe Press, 2016), Ephemeris (Nine Arches Press, 2014) and Places of Articulation (dancing girl press 2014). She is currently engaging in a study exploring questions surrounding the social, ethical and perceptual implications of communicating the aberrant body in poetic practice. Her forthcoming publication Bettbehandlung [Bedrest] engages with the cultural, social, and historical treatment and abuses of the mentally ill, and will be available soon with Muscaliet Press.
Dorothy is the founding editor of Litmus Publishing, a press exploring the intersection between science and literature and edited the following publications; Sequences and Pathogens, Litmus: the forensic issue, Litmus: the neurological issue, and Litmus: the diagnostics issue. She is interested in the challenges and outcomes arising from interdisciplinary engagement, the processes occurring at this point of intersection; the interpretation, conceptualization and re-contextualization of information, how language from another discipline embedded in a poetic structure carries a specific frisson, garners new resonance, and becomes an ingredient of communication. She is interested in the violation of predicted routes of interdisciplinary engagement, and how poets can act as marginal authorities redefining predicted roles of engagement.
Dorothy has read her work to audiences at Université Sorbonne, Paris, Science Museum, the Wellcome Trust, the Barbican, the Roundhouse, BBC Radio Kent and contributed on innovative improvised collaborations, notably with synthesizer musician, Matthew Bourne, and musician Sam Bailey. Recent poetry and reviews appear in Cordite Poetry Review, Tears in the Fence, and The Journal of Research Poetics.
Dorothy has taught Creative Writing in primary, secondary, further and higher education institutions, including Canterbury Christ Church University, the Barbican Arts Centre, and London South Bank University.
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School of English, Rutherford W4.E8
Publications
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Book
Lehane, D. (2016). Umwelt. [Online]. Nottingham, U.K.: Leafe Press. Available at: http://leafepress.com/catalog/lehane/lehane.html.
Poetry pamphlet mapping the intimacies and gaps between societal gaze, the lived experience and the medical language used against the body.
Lehane, D. (2014). Ephemeris. [Online]. Rugby, U.K.: Nine Arches Press. Available at: http://ninearchespress.com/publications/poetry-collections/ephemeris.html.
A collection of poems exploring the personal in relation to the cosmological.
Article
Lehane, D. (2017). A Pastoral Letter on Brexit. Poem: International English Language Quarterly [Online] 5:277-278. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/20519842.2017.1293321.
A pastoral letter on Brexit poem
Edited journal
Lehane, D. ed. (2016). Litmus: the diagnostics issue. Litmus Magazine [Online]. Available at: https://www.litmuspublishing.co.uk.
This issue contains poetry and prose by Anne Boyer, Theodoros Chiotis, David Caddy, David Rees, Dolly Turing, Konstantine Matsoukas, Doug Jones, Edmund Hardy, Frances Presley, Jéssica Pujol Duran, Gemma Jackson, Lila Matsumoto, Kat Peddie, Leanne Bridgewater, Linda Kemp, Sophie Mayer, Sarah Crewe, D.I., Sarah Watkinson, Mercedes Fonseca, Duncan MacKay, Julie Hogg, Andrew Taylor, Jo Delyse Packwood, Nisha Ramayya, Aimée Lê, Joanne Ashcroft, R.T.A. Parker, Simon Smith, Jordie Albiston, Lucinda Taylor Callier, Vicky Sparrow and Elinor Cleghorn.
Lehane, D., Crewe, S. and Cleghorn, E. eds. (2015). Litmus: the haematological issue. Litmus Magazine [Online]. Available at: https://www.litmuspublishing.co.uk.
Edited by Sarah Crewe (poetry), Elinor Cleghorn (Prose), and David Rees (contributing editor).
Cover image by Emmy Verschoor, with visual contributions by Catherine Williams.
This issue contains poetry and prose by Sophie Mayer, Alan Baker, clare e potter, Aidan Semmens. Richard Price (prose), Elizabeth Treadwell, Rhys Trimble, Duncan MacKay (prose) Christopher Mole, Natasha Borton, Dorothy Lehane, Eleanor Ward, Aodán McCardle, Finn Jackson, Sarah Anne Cox, Patricia Farrell, Niall Firth, Carole Birkan, Chris McCabe, Lucy Hamilton, Dimitra Ioannou, Melissa Lee-Houghton, Ann Matthews, Tom Jenks, Giles Goodland, Jennifer Spector, Pascal O'Loughlin & Erkembode, Ian Brinton (prose).
Lehane, D. and Cleghorn, E. eds. (2014). Litmus: the forensic issue. Litmus Magazine [Online]. Available at: https://www.litmuspublishing.co.uk.
This issue contains poetry from Sarah Crewe, Sophie Mayer, Simon Smith, Tim Atkins, Jeff Hilson, Geraldine Monk, Anthony Mellors, Charlotte Newman, Ben Hickman, Juha Virtanen, Nick Murray, Kat Peddie, Eleanor Perry, Holly Pester, Richard Price, Mario Petrucci, Chris McCabe, Natalie Bradbeer, Nat Raha, Sam E.A.B. Russell, Sarah Westcott, Jacqueline Corcoran, Aidan Semmens, Rosy Carrick, D.S. Marriott, Ashley French, Mendoza and David Rees.
Desk Project featuring Adam Seville, Naomi Woddis and Dominic Noble.
Cover image by Carly Ashdown with additional artwork from Jonni Cheatwood, Michaela Ridgway, and Nihal Yesil. Along with prose essays from Ian Brinton, Geraldine Monk, Jordan Amirkhani, Agency, Shakira Christadoulou, Dara Blumenthal, Elinor Cleghorn, Sarah Crewe and Maria Vlotides plus a novel extract from Ken Edwards
Lehane, D. and Cleghorn, E. eds. (2014). Litmus: the neurological issue. Litmus Magazine [Online]. Available at: https://www.litmuspublishing.co.uk.
This issue contains poetry and visual poetry from Carol Watts, Daniel Sluman, David Caddy, Edwina Attlee and Sasha Valeri Millwood, Iain Britton, James Brookes, Ira Lightman, Mark Burnhope, H.E. Spencer, James Byrne, James Wilkes, Ken Edwards, Nancy Gaffield, Ken Taylor, Patricia Debney, Peter Hughes, Amy Cutler, Rick Crilly, Iain Britton, Mendoza, and Verity Spott along with fiction from Lucy Sheerman, and essays by Sian Ede, Ian Brinton, Elinor Cleghorn. ALSO artwork from Emmy Verschoor (cover image), Kate Powell, thequietscribe, and Holly Henderson.
Internet publication
Lehane, D. (2015). Information and Poetry: Encountering the Informationists [Internet]. Available at: https://glasgowreviewofbooks.com/2015/07/12/information-and-poetry-encountering-the-informationists-dorothy-lehane/.
This is Part One of a special retrospective on the Informationists, an experimental poetry group including Robert Crawford, W.N. Herbert, David Kinloch, Peter McCarey, Alan Riach and Richard Price. Part One contains introductions and retrospectives from Richard Price and Alan Riach. Also included is a new introductory preface by Dorothy Lehane, written especially for the planned Italian translation of the group anthology 'Contraflow on the SuperHighway' (see the Diafora website here). Five poems from the anthology are also included in Part One.
Other
Lehane, D. (2017). Bettbehandlung [Bedrest]. Journal of Poetics Research [Online]. Available at: http://poeticsresearch.com/article/dorothy-lehane-bettbehandlung-bedrest/.
Poem
Performance
Lehane, D. (2016). Collaboration with synthesizer Matthew Bourne, (April 2016). [Performance]. Available at: http://www.lsbu.ac.uk/schools/arts-and-creative-industries/magnetic-south.
Magnetic South Arts & Music Festival, collaboration with synthesizer Matthew Bourne, (April 2016)
Lehane, D. (2016). Poetry Reading at Impaired/Heightened Sense conference. [Reading].
Poetry Reading at Impaired/Heightened Sense conference , Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris (Jan 2016)
Lehane, D. (2015). Poetry Reading at Wellcome Trust, Refracted Light: 20 poets on Jackson Mac Low's Light Series, (May 2015). [poetry reading].
Poetry Reading at Wellcome Trust, Refracted Light: 20 poets on Jackson Mac Low's Light Series, (May 2015)
Lehane, D. (2014). Exponential Horn/Archive of the Now/Litmus, Science and Poetry event. [Radio]. Available at: http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk.
Exponential Horn/Archive of the Now/Litmus, Science and Poetry event Science Museum, (June 2014)
Lehane, D. (2014). I am Become Words: Science and Poetry Special Editions. [Reading].
Poetry Reading and Discussion. Poetry Library I am Become Words: Science and Poetry Special Editions (Oct 2014)
Lehane, D. (2014). Poetry Reading at Tears in the Fence Festival. [Reading]. Available at: https://tearsinthefence.com/festival/.
Poetry Reading Tears in the Fence Festival, (Sept 2014)
Review
Lehane, D. (2016). Review of (O) by Sophie Mayer Caddy, D. ed. Tears in the Fence 63 [Online]:105-108. Available at: https://tearsinthefence.com.
Review of (O) poetry collection, by Sophie Mayer