Paul William Hullah is an English writer who has published several volumes of poetry, short stories, and literary criticism, as well as a series of literature-based EFL textbooks for university students in Japan and articles in several academic journals in the field of EFL. He was co-editor of the 1997 authorized international edition of the collected poetry of the major novelist Dame Iris Murdoch. He had also co-edited, in 1996, Playback and talk show: new Edinburgh crimes, by Ian Rankin, the first book of Inspector Rebus stories to be published in Japan.[1] In 2016, he published the critical monograph "We Found Her Hidden: The Remarkable Poetry of Christina Rossetti".
Hullah was born in Ripon, North Yorkshire, and now lives in Japan. He attended Ripon Grammar School, and then lived and worked for over a decade as a music and arts journalist in Edinburgh, Scotland, while achieving an M.A. (in English Language and Literature) and a Ph.D. (the poetry of Christina Rossetti) from the University of Edinburgh. Hullah was an active figure in the Edinburgh underground arts and music scene during the 1980s; one of his many commercially unsuccessful bands was Teenage Dog Orgy.[2] He moved to Japan in 1992 and is currently Associate Professor of British Literature (Poetry) at Meiji Gakuin University, Tokyo. In 2013 he received the Asia Pacific Brand Laureate International Personality Award for ‘paramount contribution to the cultivation of literature [that has] exceptionally restored the appreciation of poetry and contributed to the literary education of students in Asia.’[3]
Writing
And Here's What You Could Have Won, Hullah's first book-length collection of poetry, attracted critical praise,[4][5][6] with reviewers variously noting echoes of W. S. Graham, John Ashbery and Christina Rossetti (about whom Hullah has published several critical essays) in the layered lyrical pieces. His second collection, Let Me Sing My Song (Dionysia, 2000) contained more confessional poetry, though retaining the wit and collisions of imagery of earlier work. Unquenched, a slim volume of haiku in English, illustrated by the Scottish artist Susan Mowatt, was published by Afterdays Press, Scotland, in 2002.[7]Age's Bullets was published in 2006 by Vagabond Press, Sydney, Australia. In August 2011, Word Power Books UK published Homing, a selection of 24 poems by Hullah dealing with loss and recovery, illustrated by Susan Mowatt. Homing was performed as a multi-media piece, featuring music by Davy Henderson and translations by Hidetoshi Tomiyama, during 2012 in Tokyo, Kyoto, and Edinburgh. Scenes: Words, Pictures, and Music, a collaboration with the painter and musician Martin Metcalfe (formerly of Goodbye Mr Mackenzie) featuring poems by Hullah, was published by Word Power Books UK in August 2014. His latest collection, Climbable was published by Partridge Books in 2016.
Music
Hullah was also a very active musician during his time at Edinburgh University and afterwards. He was a key member of several outfits in the Edinburgh underground scene including Kitsch and the Night Set, a two-piece synth group in the style of Soft Cell. Hullah was also involved with Edinburgh 'supergroup' Teenage Dog Orgy.[2] Hullah sang for this outfit and composed lyrics. The band were formed out of Edinburgh's Indie art rock circuit and comprised Hullah, Billy Gould and Gordon Mackenzie on bass & drums (The Calloways), and Martin Metcalfe on guitar (Goodbye Mr Mackenzie).
In 2014 he released Scenes, a limited edition vinyl album in collaboration with Martin Metcalfe and The Filthy Tongues, with whom he continues to record and play live. He has also collaborated and often performs live with Japanese avant-garde pop band Tenniscoats.
Bibliography
Playback and talk show: new Edinburgh crimes, by Ian Rankin, ed. with Y. Muroya (Kenkyusha: Tokyo, 1996) ISBN4-327-42132-4
Poems by Iris Murdoch, ed. with Y. Muroya (University Education Press: Okayama, 1997) ISBN4-88730-203-7
And Here’s What You Could Have Won, (Dionysia: Edinburgh, 1997) ISBN0-9522341-2-2
Passports to Comprehension (Textbook), ed. with Y. Muroya (University Education Press: Okayama, 1998) ISBN4-88730-261-4
Occasional Essays by Iris Murdoch, ed. with Y. Muroya (University Education Press: Okayama, 1998) ISBN4-88730-251-7
Romanticism and Wild Places, Essays in Memory of Paul Edwards, (Quadriga: Edinburgh, 1998) ISBN1-85933-008-8[8][9]
More Passports to Comprehension (Textbook), ed. with Y. Muroya (University Education Press: Okayama, 1999) ISBN4-88730-312-2
Hullah, P. (December 1997). "'Calling All into Doubt': Art, Life, and Identity in IrisMurdoch's 'Not Highly Regarded' The Italian Girl". Memoirs of the Faculty of Education and Culture, Miyazaki University. Humanities. 15: 9–15. ISSN1345-4005.
Hullah, P. (2005). "My Alchemist': Another Archetype Reworked in Christina Rossetti's The Prince's Progress". Memoirs of the Faculty of Education and Culture, Miyazaki University. Humanities. 13: 45–52. ISSN1345-4005.
↑ John Bayley, cover blurb, And Here's What You could Have Won: "Paul Hullah’s poems are unlike any others today. They are not only very good but very direct and moving. Love’s Long Journey is an example. And they possess a shapeliness and clarity that other poets today might envy. Their beauty is as enigmatic as it is straightforward."
↑ Iris Murdoch, back cover blurb, Let Me Sing My Song: "Fine poems...some with an enchantment that touches me deeply."
↑ Angus Calder, (Autumn 1998) Understanding (literary magazine), Dionysia Press, 127 Milton Road West, 7 Duddingston House Courtyard, Edinburgh, EH15 1JG: "Why isn't Paul Hullah's verse better known?… He often deals with poignantly transient erotic relationships, within a European tradition that goes back to the troubadours. He does so with modesty and wry humour… His rhythms suggest on one hand rock lyrics, on the other the virtuoso technical versatility of Romantic and post-Romantic nineteenth century writers. But his conversational personality is very much his own. I think that only a very stuffy or bigoted proponent of some other kind of poetry could resist that candid, rueful, singing personality."
↑ Cited in Heywood, C. (1998). "Yorkshire Landscapes in Wuthering Heights". Essays in Criticism. Oxford University Press. XLVIII (1): 13–34. doi:10.1093/eic/XLVIII.1.13., and in Mason, E.; Worrall, D.; Perry, S.; Martin, P.; Nattrass, L.; Gilroy, A.; Verhoeven, W. M.; Muse, A. (1998). "XII The Nineteenth Century: The Romantic Period". The Year's Work in English Studies. Oxford University Press, English Association. 79 (1): 443–545. doi:10.1093/ywes/79.1.443.
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