Elizabeth-Jane Burnett

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Elizabeth-Jane Burnett is a poet and academic, formerly Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Newman University in Birmingham, Associate Professor at Northumbria University, and a Leverhulme Research Fellow for 2021-22. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] She has been described as an 'ecopoet' [6] who curates 'ecopoetic' exhibitions. [7] She is interested in nature writing, as well as place and family heritage. [8]

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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. [9] [10] [11] 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] [12]

Burnett also studied performance at the Bowery Poetry Club in New York and Naropa. [12]

Awards

Burnett was named in the 10th Anniversary Shortlist for the James Cropper Wainwright Prize, for her book of poetry, nature-writing, and memoire, Twelve Words for Moss. [13]

Publications

Burnett has published two poetry collections with Penned in the Margins, 'Swims' and 'Of Sea'. [12] Both books are concerned 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, [14] and was featured as a Sunday Times Poetry Book of the Year in 2017. [15] [16]

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). Wasafiri 106: the Water issue (2021), features three poems by Burnett. [4]

Her PhD thesis was published as A Social Biography of Contemporary Innovative Poetry Communities: The Gift, the Wager, and Poethics (2017) by Palgrave Macmillan. [17]

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. [18]

In 2021, Burnett was commissioned by the National Trust to create a poem responding to nature observations made by members of the public. [19]

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  2. 1 2 "Dr Elizabeth-Jane Burnett". www.northumbria.ac.uk. Retrieved 24 August 2021.
  3. ↑ "Newman's Dr Burnett receives Research Grant Scholarship". Newman University, Birmingham. 13 September 2018. Retrieved 24 August 2021.
  4. 1 2 "Wasafiri Wonders: Elizabeth-Jane Burnett". Wasafiri Magazine. Retrieved 24 August 2021.
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  6. ↑ "Dictionary of the soil". TLS. Retrieved 24 August 2021.
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  9. ↑ "The Grassling by Elizabeth-Jane Burnett review – a geological memoir". The Guardian. 21 March 2019. Retrieved 24 August 2021.
  10. ↑ Armitstead, Presented by Claire; Tresilian, Richard Lea Produced by Susannah (9 April 2019). "Elizabeth-Jane Burnett and Ian Maleney on soil, family and loss – books podcast". The Guardian. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 24 August 2021.
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  12. 1 2 3 "Penned in the Margins | Elizabeth-Jane Burnett" . Retrieved 24 August 2021.
  13. ↑ "10th Anniversary Shortlist for the James Cropper Wainwright Prize Announced". Wainwright Prize. Retrieved 25 August 2023.
  14. ↑ Andrew Jeffrey (27 October 2017). "Review: 'Swims' by Elizabeth-Jane Burnett • Poetry School". Poetry School. Retrieved 24 August 2021.
  15. ↑ Noel-Tod, Jeremy. "Books of the year: Poetry". The Times . ISSN   0140-0460 . Retrieved 24 August 2021.
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  19. ↑ "National Trust calls for spring nature observations to create poem". The Guardian. 20 March 2021. Retrieved 24 August 2021.
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