Double Self Portrait With Mirror: New & Selected Poems (1978-2014)
- Submitting institution
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University of Ulster
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 76747525
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Editora Ex Machina
- ISBN
- 9788567773056
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2014
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Since 2014, my creative practice has been driven by the main research motivation of examining and writing about liminality. This has been developed in focused explorations of transcultural experience, the climate crisis and the relationship with my father. This research path has enabled collaboration with a number of significant local and national organisations, journals and audiences and dissemination of my work in a number of formats in publications, performance, exhibitions, installations and partnerships. Individual works are submitted as a single output for the reason that each has a connection to wider projects, and because collectively they represent an organic, rhizomatic body of research and writing.
Commissioned by the Institute for Conflict Resolution, ‘Affreca and the Rooks’ brings to light the unacknowledged life and work of Affreca de Courcy, founder of Grey Abbey. One of six poems composed by prominent Northern Irish poets in response to historical sites on the Ards Peninsula, the poem is permanently mounted on a bronze plaque at the Abbey, where via a Q-code visitors can listen to me reading it. This poem was published in a limited edition pamphlet and in the journal New Hibernia Review, and was featured in a television documentary about the Ards project. Segments of the book-length poem Mustangs have been published in literary journals and I perform it with musical accompaniment at live events; an exhibition of the poem alongside black and white photographs, a book publication, and a film poem version are in development. I have built on the milestone bilingual publication in 2014 of Double Self Portrait With Mirror: New and Selected Poems (1978-2014) in work that breaks new ground formally and thematically. These poems have been published in literary journals, featured in public readings, won international awards, and are the nucleus of my next collection, Something About Horses.
Of the 50 poems collected in Double Self Portrait With Mirror: New & Selected Poems (1978-2014), the twelve new poems on pages 30-73 were unpublished prior to this edition. The 38 previously published poems were selected from seven collections published between 1978 and 2009. Twelve of these are from Tattoo Land, which was submitted for REF 2014. Lineation and punctuation in the pieces reprinted from Tattoo Land and earlier collections were revised to strengthen individual poems and to provide a clearer indication of my evolving poetics.
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- Non-English
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