Joanne is studying for a PhD in Creative Writing at Edge Hill University, supervised by Professor Robert Sheppard and Dr James Byrne.
The thesis is titled ‘Sound-Rich Poetry: Maggie O’Sullivan, Bill Griffiths and Geraldine Monk’.
Joanne's area of interest is poetry in which sound manifests as the dominant textual register. Her own poetry explores how sound aspects of language are intrinsic in poetic compositional processes and how this shapes the resultant poem. The creative writing practice-led research that she is currently undertaking at Edge Hill University is investigating the idea of ‘sound-rich poetry’ in contemporary innovative poetry.
Joanne is a member of NAWE, BACLS, ASLE-UK &I
Conferences
23rd April 2013
‘On Collaboration with Mina Loy’
Literary Collaboration Symposium
Edge Hill University
19th June 2013
‘Voicing Edges: Experimental Writing and Social Positioning’ English and History Dept Research Forum
Edge Hill University
15th November 2014
‘The Nion Sign as Artifact in My Creative Practice’ Motif Conference 2014
RHUL
24th March 2015
‘The Ash Tree as Motif in Poetry’ EH Post Grad Conference
Edge Hill University
17th March 2016
‘Voicing Wor(l)ds in the Book of IKEA’ EH Post Grad Conference
Edge Hill University
8th March 2017
‘A Response to Vitality in Robert Sheppard’s Empty Diaries and ‘Wiped Weblogs’
Robert Sheppard Symposium
Edge Hill University