Juana Adcock is a Mexican-born, Scotland-based poet and translator. Her English language poetry debut, Split (Blue Diode Press, 2019) was awarded the Poetry Book Society Winter Choice for 2019.

In this article, I discuss the politics and poetics of translation in the work of Audre Lorde, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Harryette Mullen, and Don Mee Choi, considering each poet's ideas about translation and translation practices, suggesting approaches to reading and thinking about their work in relation to translation and in relation to each other. I ask the following questions: in the selected poets'

Juana Adcock is a Mexican-born, Scotland-based poet and translator. Her English language poetry debut, Split (Blue Diode Press, 2019) was awarded the Poetry Book Society Winter Choice for 2019.

AbstractIt is a little-known fact that Angela Carter was a traditional folk singer during the 1960s, that she played the English concertina, and that she co-founded a folk club in Bristol with her first husband, Paul Carter. A newly unearthed private archive of her folk song notes from the decade, which includes her musical notations and a recording of her singing, allows us to develop new understandings

This ‘View From Here’ more or less marks the end of my time as one of Northumbria’s team of editors for English.11 As one of several innovations to enhance the journal’s international profile and reach, we introduced this shorter, more informal format as a way to encourage scholars and teachers from around the world to offer provocative reflections on the state of the discipline where they are, and

AbstractAs the HIV/AIDS epidemic approaches its fifth decade, and emerging generations of queer-identified youth experience and conceptualize the virus in new ways, questions surrounding the memorialization and historicization of queer history have arisen within the arts. In the domain of theatre in particular, as mainstream revivals of crisis-era plays such as Larry Kramer’s The Normal Heart (1985)

AbstractThe emergence of humanistic geographers like Tim Cresswell, Edward Relph, and Yi-Fu Tuan from the 1970s onwards redefined the meaning of ‘place’, through extensive emphasis on human experience within and beyond the physical landscape. Since then ‘place’ has stretched its domain and traversed the terrains of various disciplines, including literary study and production. Discussing ‘place’ in

AbstractIn her 2008 monograph Unto the Breach: Martial Formations, Historical Trauma, and the Early Modern Stage, Patricia A. Cahill argues that critics of Renaissance literature have thus far failed to ‘reckon with the fact that early modern traumatic experience is defined not only by its subject matter … but also by what can be described as its “belated” and “latent” temporal structure’. Which is

Paper Minds: Literature and the Ecology of Consciousness. by KramnickJonathan. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2018. ISBN 9780226573014. Hb. 224 pp. $75.

Revivalism and Modern Irish Literature: The Anxiety of Transmission and the Dynamics of Renewal. By de BrúnFionntán. Cork: Cork University Press, 2019. ISBN: 9781782053149. Cloth. 262 pp.

Close Reading with Computers: Textual Scholarship, Computational Formalism, and David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas. By EveMartin Paul. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2019. ISBN 9781503609365, SB, 272 pp., US$25.

This article reconsiders the function John Donne (1572–1631) attributes to tangible landscapes and environments in his Songs and Sonnets. Inscribing these metaphors within wider considerations on Donne’s spatial imagination, I suggest that traditional criticism has been privileging his fascination towards the scientific discoveries of his times and their emphasis on rather abstract ideas of spatiality

This article discusses Thomas Nashe’s longest and perhaps most frequently misread work, the religious pamphlet Christs Teares over Jerusalem. While criticism used to dismiss this text as either an ...

This essay reads Philip Larkin’s letters to his lifelong companion, Monica Jones, in order to present an alternative to the ‘easy misogynist’ and ‘crusty’ Tory caricatured and condemned by critics for more than two decades. Exploring Larkin’s textual construction of selfhood in these letters, the essay looks at the apolitical nature of the correspondence, its subtly-gendered experience of the everyday

This essay addresses the question of literary adaptation, with reference to Sebastian Faulks’ 1993 novel Birdsong, which has proved notoriously difficult to adapt for the stage as well as the screen. It is argued that Birdsong is better understood both despite and because of its problematic adaptations. Not reductively a novel ‘about’ the First World War, Birdsong may be seen as itself a form of adaptation