Dr Scott Thurston

Senior Lecturer in English and Creative Writing

• Crescent House 309
• T: 0161 295 3597
• E: s.thurston@salford.ac.uk
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Thursdays 12.00pm -1.00pm

Fridays 11.00am -12.00pm

I did my first degree in English Literature with Linguistics at the University of East Anglia, graduating in 1995. After a few years of living and working in Poland, I returned to the UK to take a PhD in Contemporary Poetry and Poetics at Edge Hill. I joined Salford in 2004 and set up the English and Creative Writing joint honours degree programme, running it for four years. I then set up and began leading the MA Creative Writing: Innovation and Experiment. I also introduced the PhD Creative Writing pathway in 2008.

I teach on the following modules:

UNDERGRADUATE

Creative Practice

Working the Text

Introduction to Poetry

Writing Poetry in the Twenty-first Century

New Departures: Reading and Writing Innovative Poetry

Final Portfolio

POSTGRADUATE

Theory, Text, Writing

Writing Workshop

Experimental Practice

Creative Project

I also currently supervise critical and creative PhD level research on contemporary poetry and poetics.

My research interests are in contemporary innovative British and North American poetry and poetics. I co-edit the Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry and co-run The Other Room poetry reading series in Manchester. I am committed to supervising PhD research in innovative poetry and poetics in both creative and critical writing and would welcome proposals in this area. I have a developing interest in the interactions between radical movement practices and innovative poetry.

PhD Poetics

Membership of NAWE

SELECTED CREATIVE WORK

Reverses Heart’s Reassembly (Veer Books: London, 2011) (ISBN 978-1-907088-41-4)

Internal Rhyme (Shearsman: Exeter, 2010) (ISBN: 978-1-848-090-3)

Of Being Circular (Knives Forks and Spoons: Newton-le-Willows, 2010) (ISBN: 978-0-9563928-5-5)

Momentum (Shearsman: Exeter, 2008) (ISBN: 978-1905700-32-5)

Hold: Poems 1994-2004 (Shearsman: Exeter, 2006) (ISBN: 0-907562-83-3)

SELECTED CRITICAL WORK

Talking Poetics: Dialogues in Innovative Poetry (Bristol: Shearsman Books, 2011) (ISBN: 9781848611917)

‘States of Transformation: Maggie O’Sullivan’s ‘Busk, Pierce’ and Excla’ in The Salt Companion to Maggie O’Sullivan (Cambridge: Salt Publishing, 2011), pp. 179-202 (ISBN 978-1-876857-73-8)

‘Innovative Poetry in Britain Today’, in Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses 60 (April 2010), (Tenerife: Departamento de Filología Inglesa y Alemana, Facultad de Filología, Universidad de La Laguna), 15-30.

‘If poetry is private language aspiring to be public, how should one write?’ in Poetry and Public Language, ed. by Anthony Caleshu and Tony Lopez, (Exeter: Shearsman, 2007), pp. 263-269 (ISBN 978-1905700-64-6)

 ‘Allen Fisher – Reading “Mummers’ Strut”’ in volume 4 of Eseje o wspólczesnej poezji brytyjskiej i irlandzkiej, (Essays on Modern British and Irish Poetry) ed. Ludmila Gruszewska and David Malcolm, (Gdansk: University of Gdansk Press, 2005), pp. 119-134 (ISBN: 83-7326-288-1)