Overview

Room 303, Queen's Building

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If you really canot make the days or times offered, then please emall me at Andy.Brown@exeter.ac.uk and I will try to find another time for you.

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Research

• Contemporary Poetry            * Poetry, Medicine and Science
• Ecology and Ecopoetics        * Emergence Theory             
• Critical Realism                     * OuLiPo
• Contemporary Fiction            * Historical Fiction

Professor Brown welcomes PhD proposals from writers and researchers with related interests.

Professor Andy Brown is a well-known poet and poetry commentator. He is an Associate Professor in English & Creative Writing, and Director of Postgraduate Research in Creative Writing. His most recent books of poetry are The Tin Lodes [with Marc Woodward] (Indigo Dreams Publishing), Casket (Sheasman Books), Bloodlines (Worple Press), Watersong (Shearsman Books, 2015) and Exurbia (Worple 2014)..

He is currently working on a collaborative book of poems about music, GRACE NOTES (with Marc Wooodward); a short collection of poems and asemic illustrations, BAIKAL ZEN (forthcoming), and a new book of lyric poems, THE TRACE (forthcoming).

He co-edited A Body of Work: an anthology of poetry and medical writing (Bloomsbury, 2015) with Corinna Wagner, and edited and contributed to The Writing Occurs as Song: A Kelvin Corcoran Reader (Shearsman 2014).

He published an historical novel, Apples & Prayers (Dean Street, 2015) and is working on a new novel, The Midnight Mechanic, centred around cholera and the sanitary developments in Victorian London.

He is writing a book about the figure of the tree climber in literature and in art - #manintree - which explores our relationship to trees, and the mental health benefits of tree climbing and forests.

His previous poetry publications include The Fool and the Physician (Salt, 2012), based on the paintings of Hieronymus Bosch; Goose Music (Salt, 2008) with John Burnside; The Storm Berm (Tall Lighthouse, 2008); Fall of the Rebel Angels: Poems 1996-2006 (Salt, 2006) and five previous volumes of poetry. 

He has edited two collections of correspondences with contemporary writers, collected in Binary Myths 1&2 (Stride, 2004), and has worked with sculptors, filmmakers, and musicians. He writes regular reviews and articles for a range of literary journals. He is a regular tutor for the Poetry School, London, and is a well-known performer and singer-songwriter around the South West.

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Supervision

Research students

To date I have supervised eleven PhDs to successful completion, most with publication of books within their PhDs, several with major national awards and prizes, and many of them having gone on to take up successful academic careers elsewhere:

Luke Kennard (poetry/prose poetry);   Tupa Snyder (poetry);  Sally Flint (poetry/ekphrasis);   Jaime Robles (poetry);   Ben

Smith (poetry/ecopoetics); Jos Smith (poetry/ecopoetics);   Eleanor Rees (poetry/neo-materialism);   Isabel Galleymore

(poetry/ecopoetics);     Alison Stone (British Objectivist poetry); Mia Dormer (historical crime fiction); Sally Long

(poetry/meditation and Ignatian poetics).

I am supervisor to 10 PhDs at present in poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction, and am 2nd spervisor to a number of

academic English PhDs.

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Publications

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| To Appear | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2015 | 2014 | 2011 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2002 | 1998 | 1996 |

To Appear

• Brown AC, Morley D. Of Science, Worple Press.
• Brown AC. The Wanderer’s Prayer, Arc Publications.

2023

• Brown A, Woodward M. (2023) Grace Notes And Other Poems.
• Briggs DL. (2023) The Odyssey Complex: Reading and Writing Midlife Poetics and Middle Style.
• Pragier D. (2023) Taking Words Literally: Cratylism in the Post-Truth Age.

2022

• Brown A. (2022) The Tree Climbing Cure Finding Wellbeing in Trees in European and North American Literature and Art, Bloomsbury Publishing.
• Passarelli C. (2022) Fictions Pointing at the Moon.
• Passarelli C. (2022) Fictions Pointing at the Moon.
• Passarelli C. (2022) Fictions Pointing at the Moon.

2021

• Long S. (2021) Poetic Exercises: An Exploration of the Influence of The Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatius on the Writing of Poetry.

2020

• Markle A. (2020) Hanging Them Up - Depictions of Retirement in Contemporary American Boxing Novels; and the novel Bruise.

2019

• Brown A. (2019) Casket, Shearsman Books.

2018

• Brown AC. (2018) 'I Went Disguised in It': Re-evaluating Seamus Heaney's STATIONS, British Prose Poetry The Poems Without Lines, Palgrave Macmillan, 177-191, DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-77863-1_11.
• Brown AC. (2018) Bloodlines, Worple Press.

2015

• Brown AC. (2015) Watersong, Shearsman Publications.
• Wagner CM, Brown A. (2015) A Body of Work: An Anthology of Poetry and Medicine, Bloomsbury.

2014

• Brown A. (2014) Exurbia.
• Brown A. (2014) 'the Writing Occurs As Song' A Kelvin Corcoran Reader.

2011

• Brown A. (2011) Finding 'the lit space': Reality, imagination, and the commonplace, in the poetry of John Burnside, Agenda, volume 45-46, no. 4-1, pages 101-111.
• Brown AC. (2011) Woody Alliances Laundered: OuLiPoems by Andy Brown and William Wordsworth.
• Brown AC. (2011) Finding the Lit Space: Reality, Imagination and the Commonplace in the Poetry of John Burnside, AGENDA, volume 45 and 46, no. No 4 / No 1, pages 101-112.
• Brown AC, Monson J. (2011) 4 Prose Poems in THIS LINE IS NOT FOR TURNING: an Anthology of Contemporary British Prose Poetry.
• Brown AC. (2011) OuLiPoems, Ekleksographia. [PDF]
• Brown AC. (2011) The Emergent Prose Poem, A Companion to Poetic Genre, Wiley-Blackwell. [PDF]

2008

• Brown AC. (2008) The Storm Berm, Tall Lighthouse Publishing.
• Brown, A., Burnside J. (2008) Goose Music, Salt International Publications.
• Brown AC. (2008) Echoes of the oikos: an eco-critical reading, The Salt Companion to Lee Harwood, Salt Editions, 171-194.

2007

• Brown AC. (2007) ‘Four Prose Poems’: The British Prose Poem.

2006

• Brown AC. (2006) Fall of the Rebel Angels: Poems 1996-2006, Salt Editions.

2005

• Brown, A.. (2005) The Trust Territory, Heaventree.

2004

• Brown AC. (2004) Binary Myths 1 & 2, Stride Publications.
• Brown AC. (2004) Hunting the Kinnayas, Stride Publications.

2002

• Brown AC. (2002) From A Cliff, Arc Publications.

1998

• Brown AC. (1998) Vital Movement, Vital Movement, Reality Street Editions.
• Brown AC. (1998) West of Yesterday, Stride Publications.

1996

• Brown AC. (1996) The Sleep Switch, Odyssey Poets.

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Teaching

Modules taught

• EAS1042 - Write after Reading
• EAS1044 - Imagine This: Prompts for Creative Writing
• EAS2032 - Creative Writing: Making a Poem
• EAS2035 - Serious Play: Creative Writing Workshop
• EAS3122 - Creative Writing Dissertation
• EASM123 - Creative Writing Dissertation
• EASM144 - Image, Shape and Music

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