Profiles
Mr Sam Kemp
Doctoral Teaching Assistant
School of Humanities and Performing Arts (Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business)
Role
Doctoral Teaching Assistant
Qualifications
BA Creative Writing, First Class Honours
MA Creative and Critical Writing, First Class Honours
Professional membership
National Association of Writers in Education (NAWE)
Poetry Society
Teaching interests
Sam teaches all aspects of Creative Writing including on the ENGL401 Craft of Writing module designed to give an overview of writing genres and the guidelines that bind poetry, prose and creative non-fiction together. He's also taught elements of publishing and led the MA Publishing Induction 2018.
For 2019/2020, he'll be leading a seminar group on ENGL503 Dramatic Writing and ENGL609 Contemporary Poetry.
Research interests
Sam specialises in contemporary poetry, particularly radical landscape poetry and psychogeographical and mythogeographical literature. Experimental form, linguistics and typology are among his interests. His work has been anthologised and published in numerous international journals.
He's presented his research at international conferences and continues to develop publications both critical and creative.
Other research
Architecture
The contemporary pastoral
Walking
Utopia
Pataphysics
Place and space
Nostalgia
Creative practice & artistic projects
PhD in Creative Writing: ‘Moving through certainty’ Towards a poetics of Mythogeography: drifting through narrative tensions of nostalgia in radical landscape poetry
Literary Criticism: Three Steps Towards A Rural Utopia: Negotiating Urban Despair in Peter Riley’s Alstonefield, published in Antonym Journal. https://bit.ly/2AP8bL4
Poetry: Post-Road, Compass, Brittle Star, Sea Post Press, Envoi, Compass, Ink Sweat and Tears, Dream Catcher, Angle Poetry, Fire, Smoke.
Reports & invited lectures
Mythogeography, University of Bournemouth (forthcoming)
Other academic activities
PGR Creative Process Workshops with guest poets
PGCAP, 2017-2020