A PhD research studentship covering stipend and tuition fee costs is offered within the Faculty of Art & Design and Humanities, to work with a lively Creative Writing team in the area of Contemporary Poetic Practice and Formal Innovation. 

The applicant may wish to propose a project that invites cross-disciplinary dialogue with other subjects within the Faculty of Art, Design and Humanities.  This studentship would appeal to a practitioner working within areas informed by the fields of the British Poetry Revival, Linguistically Innovative Poetry, and Late Modernist praxis.

We welcome poets who aim to explore the intersections between creative practice, philosophy, critical theory and poetics.  The applicant should be a poet whose creative practice might be innovative formally and linguistically in terms of structure, style, or subject matter or combinations thereof.  The creative work will explore the boundaries and overlaps between different disciplines and forms of knowledge, or even investigate and demonstrate the ways in which different discourses, registers, languages might conflict, clash, overlap or fuse at the micro-linguistic level.  

The transdisciplinary nature of the successful project may also involve moving writing beyond the page to digital or performance-based spaces, or conversely involve bringing aspects of New Media or performance-based practices back to bear upon the page.  Suitable topics might include, but are not limited to:

• What it means to open out the 'voice' of the poem to other specialist discourses (such as science, technology, history and philosophy)
• What kind of creative interventions in the field of poetics might allow a contemporary poet to situate themselves amongst the various labels ascribed to vanguard poetic praxis (such a Modernist, Late Modernist, Avant-Garde, Experimental, Linguistically Innovative etc)
• How developments in digital writing, writing for the screen, and New Media can inform contemporary 'linguistically innovative' page-based poetry
• The way(s) poetic practice can be considered a vehicle for research in its own right
• Exploring notions of 'lyric'
• Exploring the degree to which there is a 'politics of poetic form'

The applicant would normally have an MA or equivalent experience. For a more detailed description of the studentship project please visit our web site or contact Dr Simon Perril on +44 (0)116 25 77526 or email sperril@dmu.ac.uk