Emily Critchley

Emily Critchley (born 1980) is an experimental writer and academic. She is the winner of the John Kinsella-Tracy Ryan prize for poetry (2004) and the Jane Martin Prize for Poetry (2011).

Background

Critchley was born in Athens, Greece and grew up in Dorset, England. She played piano and clarinet until she was 18. Her mother is Greek. She states that her influences include T. S. Eliot, the Language poets, Gertrude Stein, John Berryman and Ezra Pound.[1]

Critchley’s writing has been compared to that of Denise Riley,[2] Leslie Scalapino, and Mina Loy.[3] She has been performing her work across the UK and the USA since 2000.[4] In 2004 she won the John Kinsella-Tracy Ryan prize for poetry[5] and in 2011 was joint winner of the national Jane Martin Prize for Poetry.[6] Critchley is also a visual artist and musician.

As an academic, Critchley gained her BA from the University of Oxford,[4] her MA in Modern and Contemporary Poetry at Bristol University,[4] and completed a PhD entitled titled ‘[D]oubts, Complications and Distractions: Rethinking the Role of Women in Language Poetry’ at the University of Cambridge.[4][7][8] She specializes in contemporary experimental poetry. In 2006, she organised a three-day international conference for contemporary experimental women’s writing at the University of Cambridge[9] and another in 2010 at the University of Greenwich.[4][10][11] She is currently editing the sequel to the poetry anthology, Out of Everywhere: Linguistically Innovative Poetry by Women in North America & the UK, to be published by Reality Street Press. Critchley is not a professor at the University of Greenwich.[4] She lives in London.

Published works

References

  1. ↑ Interview (video) 6 October 2010, The other room
  2. ↑ Zoë Skoulding, Contemporary Women's Poetry and Urban Space: Experimental Cities, (Palgrave Macmillan 2013), p. 16
  3. ↑ Tuma, Keith (Spring 2007), "Some Younger British Poets" (PDF), Chicago Review 53 (1): 213–220
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 4.8 4.9 4.10 4.11 4.12 4.13 4.14 4.15 4.16 Emily Critchley at the Wayback Machine (archived December 4, 2010) (University of Greenwich profile)
  5. ↑ Royal Holloway, Runnymede International Literary Festival, University of London
  6. ↑ National Poetry Prize Winners announced at the Wayback Machine (archived August 25, 2011), Girton College, Cambridge, 9 May 2011
  7. ↑ Emily Critchley, "'[D]oubts, Complications and Distractions'; Rethinking the Role of Women in Language Poetry", Hot Gun! Journal, ed. Josh Stanley, 1 (Summer 2009) pp. 29–49
  8. ↑ "Added to the Mix" Stride magazine 2011
  9. ↑ Cambridge women's conference
  10. ↑ Greenwich Festival 2010
  11. ↑ Emily Critchley, "A conference overview" and "Introduction to the Cambridge Contemporary Experimental Women's Poetry Festival How2 journal, vol. 3:1 (Summer 2007)

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