University of Edinburgh

Time, materiality, & poetic inquiry: linguistically innovative poetry in and against the Anthropocene

Academic History:

2011 - 2014: University of Cambridge, BA Hons English Literature

2015 - 2016: University of Exeter, MA Literary Studies

2017 - present: University of Edinburgh, PhD Candidate

Supervisors:

Dr David Farrier (University of Edinburgh)

Dr Aaron Kelly (University of Edinburgh)

Research Interests:

My doctoral project examines linguistically innovative poetry in relation to the environmental humanities, situating the British Poetry Revival, Marxist-feminist poetry, and their legacies in contemporary innovative poetics within and against the Anthropocene. My research focuses particularly on the relation of poetry to nonlinear temporality, queer and feminist Marxisms, and critical junctures between historical materialism and the material turn.

Environmental humanities, linguistically innovative poetry, materialism, queer studies, environmental politics and insurgency

Publications:

 ‘“time on the rocks”: Parataxis, materialism, & nonlinear time in the geologic “now” of Wendy Mulford’s linguistically innovative lyric,’ Corroding the Now (forthcoming, Veer Books & Crater Press, 2021)

Review of Rob Kiely, simmering of a declarative void (the87press 2020) in SPAM Magazine (July, 2020)

Recent poetry is published in Tenebrae, erotoplasty, -algia, and the weird folds: everyday poetry from the Anthropocene (Dostoyevsky Wannabe 2020)

Previous Research Projects:

‘Rewriting agriculture in a contested Anthropocene: Ted Hughes, Sean Borodale, & Jen Hadfield,’ MA Dissertation.

Scholarships:

AHRC doctoral scholarship

AHRC-funded visiting studentship, Rachel Carson Centre, Munich April – July, 2019

Contact Details:

Address: 50 George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9JU

Email: fred.carter@ed.ac.uk 

First published: 25 September 2017