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Senior Lecturer (Creative Writing) , Programme Convener (Creative Writing BA)

Telephone : +44 (0)20 8392 3637
Email : J.Hilson@roehampton.ac.uk
Department : English and Creative Writing
Office location : Fincham Room 111

Qualifications

MA (English and American Literature, University of Warwick)

BA (English Literature, Cambridge University)

Publications

"Homophonic Translation: Sense and Sound" in Music and Translation ed. Helen Julia Minors (2012) London: Continuum
"The Contemporary Sonnet: A Trialogue" (with Paul Muldoon & Meg Butler) in The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet, eds Peter Howarth & A.D. Cousins (2012) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
"From A-Z and Bach Again": Getting a Handel on Louis Zukofsky's 'A'-24" in Golden Handcuffs Review (2010)
"Introduction" to The Reality Street Book of Sonnets (2008) Hastings: Reality Street
"Why I wrote sretchers," The Radiator 3 (November 2005)
"'It Makes an Indebtedness': Louis Zukofsky Translating Catullus" in interstice no. 3 (Autumn 1999)
In The Assarts (2010) London: Veer Books
Bird bird (2009) Norwich: Landfill Press
The Reality Street Book of Sonnets (ed.) (2008) Hastings: Reality Street
stretchers (2006) Hastings: Reality Street
Bird bird (pamphlet) (2005) Sheffield: Westhouse Books
stretchers 13-33 (2002) London: Writers Forum
stretchers 1-12 (2001) London: Writers Forum
a grasses primer (2000) London: Form Books
“...finally were false fruits” (1998) London: Kater Murr’s Press

Conferences & Symposia:

•“Shakespeare and the Sonnet” Symposium, Roehampton University, London,

October 20, 2012.

•"South of the River Symposium", University of Greenwich, April 2012.

“Bill Griffiths’ ‘Binaries: Not Sonnets”, Bill Griffiths Colloquium, University of

Northumbria, Newcastle, January 2012.

“’Having a Larf/Getting a Larf’:British Innovative Poetry and Humour”, Legacies of

Modernism: The State of British Poetry Today, Université Paris Diderot, Paris,

France, June 9-11, 2011.

“The Sonnet and the Unpoetic”, Poetry and the Unpoetic, University of

Amsterdam/Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis/VU University, Amsterdam,

Netherlands, May 20-21, 2011.

"A Brief History of Irregularity: AND and Writers Forum", Interaction, Symbiosis,

Overlap: Little Magazines and Small Presses Symposium, Nottingham Trent

University, March 7, 2009

"From A-Z and Bach Again: Getting a Handel on Louis Zukofsky's 'A'-24", Centre for

Modernist Studies, University of Sussex, January 23, 2009

"Editing The Reality Street Book of Sonnets", Contempo: Centre for Contemporary

Poetry, Bangor University/Aberystwyth University, December 2, 2008.

"Homoloinguistic Translation", Translating Words, Translating Worlds Symposium,

Roehampton Festival, June 10, 2008.

“Magnitudes of Value: Louis Zukofsky, Hawthorne and the place of the artefact in

the Index of American Design.” Paper delivered at the Louis Zukofsky Centenary

Conference, Columbia University, New York, September 2004.

“Silent Performance.” Paper delivered at the 2001 Subvoicive Colloquium at

Birkbeck College, London University.

Papers and Talks:

Talk on my poetry at University of East London, December 6, 2012

Poetry talk at the Modern Studies Series, University of Reading, December 4,

2012.

Talk on my poetry at The Stort Poetry Group, Bishop’s Stortford, March 2012.

“Comic Moments in Contemporary British Poetry”, Ars Poetica Festival, Comenius

University, Bratislava, Slovakia, October 3, 2011.

Talk on my poetry at The Poetry and Poetics Research Group, Edge Hill University,

April 23, 2009.

Recent Readings and Performances:

Feelings, Stoke Newington, London (December 2012)

University of East London (December 2012)

Catechism: Poems for Pussy Riot Live, presented by English PEN, Free Word

Centre, Farringdon, London (November 2012)

Dusie @ Xing the Line, The Apple Tree, London (November 2012)

Crater Press & Veer Books Launch, Birkbeck College, London (September 2012)

Out of Hours Festival, Ham House, London (August 2012)

Poems for Pussy Riot, The Rich Mix, London (August 2012)

• Collaboration with Robert Sheppard, The Rich Mix, London (July 2012)

The Coldharbour Gallery, Brixton, London (July 2012)

The Hay Poetry Jamboree, Hay-on-Wye (July 2012)

Prague Poetry Micro-Festival, Prague, Czech Republic (May 2012)

Maintenant Croatia, Europe House, London (April 2012)

Stort Poetry Group, Bishop’s Stortford (March 2012)

Bill Griffiths Symposium, Newcastle (February 2012)

• Collaboration with Philip Terry, The Rich Mix, London (February 2012)

Minimum Security Prison, The Horse Hospital, London (November 2011)

• Collaboration with Sean Bonney, The Rich Mix, London (October 2011)

Ars Poetica Poetry Festival, Bratislava, Slovakia (October 2011)

Legacies of Modernism: The State of British Poetry Today, Université Denis Diderot,

Paris, France (June 2011)

Poetry& The Unpoetic, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands (May 2011)01 02-

Naujas Poezijos: Young Lithuanian & British poets in collaboration (in association

with the European Commission), Europe House, London (April 2011)

Greenwich University, London (March 2011)

Allen Ginsberg Tribute, the Poetry Café, London (February 2011). Reading

to celebrate the launch of the movie Howl. In association with Soda Pictures, the

production company behind the movie.

The Situation Room, London (November 2010)

ny poesiy, Young Norwegian and British Poets in collaboration. In association with

the Poetry Society and the Norwegian Embassy, The Poetry Café, London

(September 2010)
Crossing the Line, William IV, London (September 2010)

1st Brighton Poetry Festival, University of Sussex, Brighton (April 2010)

ExXmas, Brixton Market, London (January 2010)