Browsing by Author "Dixon, Joanne"

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    Alice Oswald, 1966- in Poetry Criticism: Criticism of the Works of the Most Significant and Widely Studied Poets of World Literature Volume 273
    (Gale, 2024-04-01) Dixon, Joanne
    An introduction to the poetry of British poet, Alice Oswald and criticism of her work.
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    ‘Brightness and Unfixity: reframing epiphany in Alice Oswald’s Woods etc.’
    (C21 Literature: Journal of 21st Century Writings, 2019-06-17) Dixon, Joanne
    Epiphany in contemporary British poetry is perceived by some poets and critics, often those who self-identify as being outside of the mainstream, as a uniform, coercive, teleological, and unchallenging literary mode. This article intervenes in these debates to show how mainstream contemporary poetry, like its more experimental and avant-garde counterparts, also disrupts the traditional epiphanic paradigm. Through new critical readings of selected poems from Alice Oswald’s collection Woods etc. (2005), this article argues for a reframing that comprises epiphanies of ‘brightness’ and ‘unfixity’ and resists a teleological reading of this deep-rooted literary mode. It proposes that these poems offer a new way of thinking about epiphany as an ongoing process of revelation in contrast to the more familiar and well-established singular moment of insight.
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    Clipped
    (Reflex Press, 2022-07-28) Dixon, Joanne
    'Clipped' is a story published in an international flash fiction anthology of international writers. The anthology contains page-long stories of less than 360 words selected for publication by Reflex Press.
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    'Extract from Three Experiments in Translation'
    (The Poetry Business, The North, 2022-08) Dixon, Joanne
    This ekphrasis poem responds to a photograph by Raymond Depardon ('Glasgow. 1980) and combines the terminology of shipbuilding and an academic article by J Gill on the use of pink in the poetry of Elizabeth Bishop. It experiments with ideas of translation from visual material and seemingly unrelated texts into poetic utterance.
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    light
    (Modern Poetry in Translation, 2022-05-10) Dixon, Joanne
    'light' is a translation of the poetry of Dutch poet, Asha Karami. The article in Modern Poetry in Translation comprises the translator's note and translated poem.
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    Purl
    (Shoestring Press, 2019-07-28) Dixon, Joanne
    Purl is a full poetry collection. The collection comprises poems of family and memory, and land, sea and air, to explore some of the meanings of ‘purl’*. In particular, the collection considers these meanings in relation to the unsettling crossing of boundaries, uncertain moments of transformation and a rediscovery of the familiar in the world around us. * (n) a thread or cord made of twisted loops used for bordering and embroidering; edging made from this; (v) of water, to flow with a swirling motion and a murmuring sound, to gurgle; of breath or smoke, to be emitted in a swirling stream, to eddy, also of music and the voice, to murmur; (v) to turn upside down, overturn, capsize, to pitch or tumble head over heels
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    Reading and Writing Index Cixous: Reflections on Creative Writing Research in the Academy
    (Writing in Practice - NAWE, 2021-12) Dixon, Joanne
    This article presents a creative-critical discussion of creative writing research in the academy. It describes a multimodal research practice that employs a range of materials, technologies, and modes of reading and writing – creative, critical, and creative-critical. In addition, it reflects on being a scholar-practitioner and on the relationship between rigour and research. The nexus of the article is a creative-critical multimodal reading and writing of Index Cixous: Cix Pax (2005), a wordless book of photographs taken by Roni Horn of French writer Hélène Cixous. Through encounters with Horn’s book, creative writing research is presented as an example of Nicholas Royle’s concept of veering (2011), while also exploring its intersection with the writings of Cixous, particularly those texts concerned with seeing, not-seeing and myopia – the focus of an emerging post-doctoral research project. The poetry film presented here is a manifestation of how creative writing research might veer between different modes and media and foster ‘besideness’ to offer new insights into lived experiences of myopia.
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    A Woman in the Queue
    (Melos Press, 2016-05-04) Dixon, Joanne
    This pamphlet of poems covers a range of themes including memory, childhood, rites of passage and being a mother.
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    Writing the Contemporary: Poetry and Postcards from UNESCO Cities of Literature
    (Trent Editions, 2019-07-25) Dixon, Joanne; Cordle, Daniel
    Writing the Contemporary brings together the work of three European poets to explore themes of home, technology and environment. Framed with postcards from other writers and expert introductions, the collection reflects on the challenge of the twenty-first century moment.