Redell Olsen
Redell Olsen (born in 1971) is a British poet and academic. Her poetry publications include Book of the Insect (1999), Book of the Fur (2000), Secure Portable Space (2004), Punk Faun: A Bar Rock Pastel (2012) and, collaboratively edited with Susan Johanknecht, Here Are My Instructions (2004). Her recent projects have involved texts for performance, film and site-specific collaboration and include: Newe Booke of Copies (2009), Bucolic Picnic (or Toile de Jouy Camouflage) (2009) and the collaboratively realised The Lost Swimming Pool (2010). Her most recent publication is 'Film Poems' (2014).
Between 2006 and 2010 Olsen was the editor of the online journal How(2). With Robert Gavin Hampson, she runs an MA in Poetic Practice at Royal Holloway in London. This is now the Poetic Practice pathway in the MA in Creative Writing.
During 2013-14, she was the Judith E. Wilson Fellow at the University of Cambridge.
Further reading
- Marcella Durand, Necessary Space: a review of secure portable space in Jacket
- Allen Fisher, "Minimaus: in response to cultural malaise" in Pores
- Redell Olsen, "Images After Errors/Errors After Images: Joan Retallack"
- Redell Olsen, "Postmodern poetry in Britain" in The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century English Poetry, ed. Neil Corcoran (2008)
- Will Rowe in conversation with Redell Olsen in Pores
- Lucy Sheerman in conversation with Redell Olsen in How(2)
- Lucy Sheerman, "Flip the Dialectic: Some Notes on the Poetic Practice Seminar"
- Martin Stannard, Review of secure portable space
External links
- RHUL profile page
- Archive of the Now
- MA Poetic Practice
- Redell Olsen at PennSound
- From "Corrupted by Showgirls" in Parataxis / Jacket
See also
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