The Built Moment : And Accompanying Film: The Sea is an Edge and an Ending
- Submitting institution
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Royal Holloway and Bedford New College
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 39782031
- Type
- T - Other
- DOI
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- Location
- London
- Brief description of type
- Faber and Faber
- Open access status
- -
- Month
- February
- Year
- 2019
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This output comprises a 64-page single-authored book of poems together with a 20-minute film (related to the first section of the poem collection) that was entirely written and directed by the poet. Double weighting is requested on the grounds that in terms of scholarly intensity, investment and weight it corresponds to double the value expected of a standard output, in our judgement.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- The Built Moment is a collection of poems that interrogates what we build out of the provisional, and our need for frameworks and fixatives. The first section is a sequence about the disappearance into Alzheimer's of Greenlaw’s father. It is a meditation on the metaphysics of memory loss which employs micro and macro shifts of form in order to exemplify both her father’s experience of time and her own. The significance of this project is demonstrated by the fact that in 2013, Greenlaw was one of the first artists to be awarded a three-year Wellcome Engagement Fellowship in recognition of her interdisciplinary work. The book and film were supported by that grant, and are an extension of the work on vision, perception, and making and reading the image, for which she is known. The book was East Anglian Poetry Book of the Year and was the basis for a Radio 4 feature-length programme. It is also available as an audiobook.
As a companion piece, Greenlaw wrote and directed the short film, The Sea is an Edge and an Ending, a short film investigating what it means to lose your memory and disappear into the present tense. It takes The Built Moment as a framework and situates this poem sequence within the context of Shakespeare’s Tempest. It moves from the shifting coastal landscape of the east of England, a geography central to Greenlaw’s work, to eroded interiors containing only the reduced emblems of this man’s life. The film was co-commissioned by Film and Video Umbrella and Estuary Festival. It has been shown internationally at arts festivals as well as science and medical conferences, and in exhibition as part of Hull City of Culture. It has also been used informally as a teaching tool by doctors and health workers.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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