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Elizabeth-Jane Burnett (born 1980) is a poet and academic, and is currently Lecturer in Creative Writing at Newman University in Birmingham, and Associate Professor at Northumbria University.[1][2] She has described herself as an 'ecopoet',[3] she curates 'ecopoetic' exhibitions,[4] and her creative and academic work is interested in nature writing, place and family heritage.
Early life and education
Burnett was born in Devon. Her mother is Kenyan while her father was born to a farming family in Ide, Devon.[5][6][7] She studied English at Oxford, after which she attended Royal Holloway, University of London, to study for an MA and PhD in Contemporary Poetics.[1][8]
Burnett also studied performance at the Bowery Poetry Club in New York and Naropa.[8]
Publications
Burnett has published two poetry books with Penned in the Margins, 'Swims' and 'Of Sea'.[8] Both books are concered with the environment and activism, and Burnett is interested in how 'poetry can raise consciousness by bringing the effects of climate change or pollution to life'.[1] 'Swims' documents experiences of wild swimming across the England and Wales,[9] was featured as a Sunday Times Poetry Book of the Year in 2017.[10][11]
Her poetry features in the anthologies Dear World and Everyone In It: New Poetry in the UK (Bloodaxe, 2013) and Out of Everywhere 2: Linguistically Innovative Poetry by Women in North America and the UK (Reality Street, 2015).
Her PhD thesis was published as A Social Biography of Contemporary Innovative Poetry Communities (2017) by Palgrave Macmillan.[12]
The Grassling, A Geological Memoir (2019) was a winner of the Penguin Random House WriteNow award.[2]
She published Rivering, a pamphlet of poems, with Oystercatcher Press in 2019.[13]
In 2021, Burnett was commissioned by the National Trust to create a poem responding to nature observations made by members of the public.[14]
- ^ a b c Lea, Richard (2017-11-16). "Elizabeth-Jane Burnett: 'Swimming can give you the optimism to keep going'". the Guardian. Retrieved 2021-08-24.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ a b "Dr Elizabeth-Jane Burnett". www.northumbria.ac.uk. Retrieved 2021-08-24.
- ^ "Dictionary of the soil". TLS. Retrieved 2021-08-24.
- ^ Foundation, Poetry (2021-08-24). "Elizabeth-Jane Burnett". Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 2021-08-24.
- ^ "The Grassling by Elizabeth-Jane Burnett review – a geological memoir". the Guardian. 2019-03-21. Retrieved 2021-08-24.
- ^ Armitstead, Presented by Claire; Tresilian, Richard Lea Produced by Susannah (2019-04-09). "Elizabeth-Jane Burnett and Ian Maleney on soil, family and loss – books podcast". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2021-08-24.
- ^ Burnett, Elizabeth-Jane (2020-09-16). "Walking back to happiness – in south Devon's hidden places". the Guardian. Retrieved 2021-08-24.
- ^ a b c "Penned in the Margins | Elizabeth-Jane Burnett". Retrieved 2021-08-24.
- ^ Andrew Jeffrey (2017-10-27). "Review: 'Swims' by Elizabeth-Jane Burnett • Poetry School". Poetry School. Retrieved 2021-08-24.
- ^ Noel-Tod, Jeremy. "Books of the year: Poetry". ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 2021-08-24.
- ^ "From 'swims' by Elizabeth-Jane Burnett". Little Toller Books. 2016-02-19. Retrieved 2021-08-24.
- ^ Burnett, Elizabeth-Jane (2017). A Social Biography of Contemporary Innovative Poetry Communities: The Gift, the Wager, and Poethics. Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-3-319-62294-1.
- ^ "Rivering by Elizabeth-Jane Burnett". Oystercatcher Press. Retrieved 2021-08-24.
- ^ "National Trust calls for spring nature observations to create poem". the Guardian. 2021-03-20. Retrieved 2021-08-24.