Who's who
Dr John Hall
Professor of Performance Writing
BA(Hons) Cambridge, Cert. Ed. Southampton, PhD Dartington (Plymouth)
Digital Futures Research Centre
Performance Writing Research Group
Keywords: Poetics, Contemporary poetry, Performativity, Situatedness, Prosody
Research interests
My current research is multiple in its varied practices and modes of engagement, though they all relate to contemporary poetry. I write both for the page and for more explicitly visual contexts such as frames, cards and computer screens. My critical writing is always concerned in some way with context, both formal and, in a more dispersed sense, cultural. In some of my articles I have engaged as a reader with a specific writer, even a specific poem; in others I have addressed more general issues, such as what it is to read contemporary page-based poems or visual poems or a writing that has deliberately been rendered illegible.
My most recent interest is in the sound shape of ‘performed' poetry, where ‘performed' can mean no more than reading to oneself.
Publications and exhibitions since January 2008
‘So you don't tell all your meaning': two poems by Douglas Oliver', New Cambridge Review, Issue 1 (2009)
Artifice & Candour, solo exhibition with artist's talk, Viewpoint Gallery, Plymouth College of Art, 11-23 March 2009
‘Take Stock Now', with Lee Harwood, in Tears in the Fence 50 (collaborative poem sequence) (2009)
‘Julian Hall and The Senior Commoner', Faber Finds website
‘The Beats that Unite": Listening to Douglas Oliver's Prosody ...' workshop in conference on the work of Douglas Oliver, Essex University, 5.12.09
‘Dress and Address: "John James" in John James', in Salt Companion to John James (ed Simon Perril, in press - Great Wilbraham, Cambridge: Salt Publishing, 2010.
Selected earlier publications
Couldn't You? Exeter: Shearsman, 2007
Thirteen Ways of Talking about Performance Writing Plymouth: PCAD, 2008
‘Karen Mac Cormack's Implexures: an Implicated Reading', in Antiphonies: Essays on Women's Experimental Poetries in Canada ed Nate Dorward (Willowdale, Ontario: The Gig, 2007), pp. 227-247
‘Falling towards each other: Occasions of Elegy' in Necessary Steps: Poetry, Elegy, Walking, Spirit. ed. David Kennedy (Exeter: Shearsman, 2007), pp. 37-48
Current research / forthcoming publications
On Writing, Reading and Performing Grammar (provisional title for collection of essays), Totnes: Acts of Language
Loose Packed, (poem set in the form of a pack of cards, collaboratively written with Lee Harwood), Totnes: Acts of Language
‘Nicholas Johnson's longer poems: a reader to other readers'; Preface to the longer poems in forthcoming selection of Johnson's poems.
‘Making it new out of old hat: the words in Lone Twin', chapter in as yet untitled book on Lone Twin, edited by Carl Lavery and David Williams, Aberystwyth: Black Mountain Press/CPR
Editorial Boards
Performance Research Journal, Journal for British and Irish Innovative Poetry, Divergence Supervision and examination of research degrees
I am currently supervising seven research students; have supervised to completion six PhD candidates, including one by staff candidature; have examined three PhD and one MPhil candidate and have chaired five other PhD examinations.
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