Roehampton University
Open Spaces. Open Minds.
School of Arts
Dr Peter Jaeger
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Job Title: Senior Lecturer (Creative Writing) Telephone: +44 (0)20 8392 8135 Email Address: P.Jaeger@roehampton.ac.uk |
Poetry Publications
1. Books
•Rapid Eye Movement. Hastings: Reality Street Editions, 2009.
•Prop. Cambridge: Salt Publishing, 2007.
•Eckhart Cars. Cambridge: Salt Publishing, 2003.
•Power Lawn. Toronto: Coach House Books, 1999.
2. Poetry Chapbooks and Pamphlets
•Pollen. Calgary: House P, 2002.
•Sub-Twang Mustard. Calgary: House P, 2000.
•Bibliodoppler. London: Writer’s Forum, 1999.
•Blue Hero. London: Writer’s Forum, 1999.
•Leasing Glass. Buffalo: Meow P, 1998.
•Stretch Conflates. Buffalo: Tailspin P, 1997.
•Hoffman Compositions. Toronto: Fingerprinting Inkoperated, 1996.
3. Poems in Anthologies
•“Eckhart Cars.” The Reality Street Book of Sonnets. Ed. Jeff Hilson. Hastings: Reality Street Editions, 2008.
•“Animals.” Turning Toward Living. Ed Alec Finlay. Newcastle-Upon-Tyne: BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Arts, 2004.
•“Overturn Marshall Curfew.” Onsets: A Breviary of Poems 13 Lines or Under. Ed. Nate Dorwood. Toronto: The Gig, 2004.
•“An Extension of Standard Practice.” The Common Sky: Canadian Writers Against The War. Ed. Darren Wershler-Henry. Toronto: Three Squares P, 2003.
•“Accoil.” Word Score Utterance Choreography. Ed. Bob Cobbing and Lawrence Upton. London:Writer’s Forum, 1998.
4. Poems in Periodicals (Selected)
•“The Rurals.” English: The Journal of the English Association. 58.223 (2009).
•“Aorta Softens.” Filling Station. 41 (2008).
•“Maybe Whatever.” Veer Off. 015 (2008).
•“A Black Tooth in Front” (excerpt). Ecopoetics 4/5 (2006)
• “Rapid Eye Movement” (excerpt). Open Letter: A Canadian Journal of Writing and Theory 12.5 (2005).
•“Eckhart Cars” (excerpt). The Gig 16 (2004).
•“Pollard.” Ecopoetics 3 (2003).
• “Lattice Effect.” West Coast Line 40.37 (2003).
•“Martyrologies.” Queen Street Quarterly. (2002).
•“Roil.” Verdure 5-6 (2002).
•“Pollen” (excerpt). Capilano Review. 2.34 (2001).
•“Pollen” (excerpt). CCCP X (2000).
•“For Revel, Press Swivel.” Sulfur 44 (1999).
•“Praxis Meets Taxes.” Open Letter: A Canadian Journal of Writing and Theory. 10.6 (1999).
•“Claque.” Rampike. 10.2 (1999).
•“Glimmer.” West Coast Line. 25 (1998).
•“Operations.” Antenym 14. (1997).
• “Painting.” Absinthe 7.1 (1994).
Academic Publications
1. Books
•ABC of Reading TRG: Steve McCaffery, bpNichol, and the Toronto Research Group. The New Canadian Criticism Series. Vancouver: Talonbooks, 1999.
2. Articles
•"Ethnicity, Ecopoetics, and Fred Wah’s Biotext." Journal of Postcolonial Writing (forthcoming in 2010).
•“But Could I Make A Living From It?”: Jeff Derksen’s Modular Form.“ Canadian Literature: A Quarterly of Criticism and Review 203 (2010).
•“Sentences on Christian Bök’s Eunoia: Writing after Language Writing, Oulipo and Conceptual Art.” The Journal of Writing in Creative Practice: Writing Encounters within Performance and Pedagogical Practice. 2.1 (2009).
• “Bokmaskinskidsen: ett ABC” OEI 11 (2002). [Swedish translation of “A Short Introduction to the Kids of the Book Machine,” on the Toronto Research Group].
•"Ethics, Transference and Translation Poetics." English: The Journal of the English Association 50.198 (2001).
•"The Purloined Aleph Beth." Open Letter: A Canadian Journal of Writing and Theory. 10.6 (1999).
•“Of Crystallography." [On Christian Bök’s Crystallography] Open Letter: A Canadian Journal of Writing and Theory. 10.1 (1998)
•“Steve McCaffery on the TRG." [interview]. Open Letter: A Canadian Journal of Writing and Theory. 10.4 (1998).
•"'Contradiction...contains the diction:' Translation Strategies in bpNichol's The Martyrology." West Coast Line 29/30 (1996).
•"You Can Call Me Lenny: Ira Nadel's Leonard Cohen: A Life in Art." Canadian Poetry 38 (1996).
•“’The Land Created a Body of Lore’:The Green Story in John Steffler's The Afterlife of George Cartwright." English Studies in Canada 21.1 (1995).
•"‘Thereographic Metawriting’ in The Ballad of Isabel Gunn." Canadian Poetry 34 (1994).
•"Reception, Difference, and the Documentary Collage: Manina Jones’ That Art of Difference" Canadian Poetry 35 (1994).
3. Miscellaneous Writing
•“The Settlers.” Performance Research: Transplantations. 14.4 (2010).
•“Cloudtown” Open Letter: A Canadian Journal of Writing and Theory. 13.5 (2008).
•“When To Write Prose.” Essays on Canadian Writing. 69 (1999).
•"E.R.'s Language of Enjoyment." Open Letter: A Canadian Journal of Writing and Theory. 9.9 (1997).
Readings, Conferences, Lectures
1. Selected Poetry Readings
•Kootenay School of Writing. Vancouver, Canada. September 4, 2009.
•Calder Bookshop, London, England, May 28, 2009
•Roehampton University, London, December 5, 2008.
•Crossing the Line. Poetry Society, London, England. November 25, 2005.
•University of Sophia, Bulgaria. March, 2004.
•Total Writing London Festival. Camden People’s Theatre, London, England. 28 June, 2003.
•Text Excavation and the Word Festival. Phoenix Theatre. Exeter, England. May, 2003.
•Cambridge Conference of Contemporary Poetry. Cambridge University, England. April, 2000.
•Platform Gallery, London, England. July 31, 1999.
•Canadian Poetry Festival. Cornershop Gallery. Buffalo, NY, USA. February 7, 1998.
•On The H Orizon: bpNichol After Ten. Emily Carr College of Art, Vancouver, Canada. September 26, 1998.
•University of Western Ontario. London, Ontario, Canada. January 26, 1997.
2. Conference Papers.
•“Poetics and the Social Bond.” Kootenay School of Writing. Vancouver, Canada. September 5, 2009.
•“Ethnicity, Ethics and Fred Wah’s Ecopoetics.” Postcoloniality and Ecology. Roehampton University, London, England. November 14-15, 2008.
•“Psychoanalysis and ‘Impersonal’ Poetries.” Blood Remembering: Psychoanalysis and Poetry. Annual Day in Applied Psychoanalysis. University of Toronto, Canada. September 27, 2008.
•“Christian Bök’s Conceptual Poetics.” Writing Encounters. University of York St. John, York, England. September 11-14, 2008.
•“Jeff Derksen’s But Can I Make A Living From It." Long Poems:::Major Forms. University of Sussex Centre for Modernist Studies, Brighton. May 16-17, 2008.
•“Ecopoetics and Materiality.” Contemporary Writing Environments. Brunel University, London. July 8-10, 2004.
•"The Pause of Translation." Language/Poetry/Performance. De Montfort University, Leicester. December 8-9, 2000.
•"The Portable Nichol." On The H Orizon: bpNichol After Ten. Emily Carr College of Art, Vancouver, British Columbia. September 25-26, 1998.
•"Looking at ABC." EyeRhymes: A Multi-Disciplinary, International Conference on Visual Poetry. University of Alberta, Edmonton. June 12-16, 1997.
•"Steve McCaffery's 'Politics beyond Politics'." 20th Century Literature Conference. University of Kentucky, Louisville. February 20-22, 1997.
•"'Hegel's Eyes'; McCaffery's Blinding." LEXIS. University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario. October 27, 1995.
•"Reading Translating bpNichol." Association of Canadian College and University Teachers Conference. The Learned Societies Conference. University of Montreal. June 1, 1995.
3. Lectures and Seminars
•“Generic Borderblurs: Non-Fiction, Fiction, Poetry.” Research Seminar, Centre for Research in Creative and Professional Writing. Roehampton University. February 21, 2008.
•“What are we Doing Here?: Creative Writing as an Academic Discourse.” Inaugural lecture. Centre for Research in Creative and Professional Writing. Roehampton University. October 10, 2007
•"A Record of Negative Retrieval." King's Talks. King's College, University of London. March 15, 2000.
•"Poetheory?" Performance Writing Program. Dartington College of Arts. Totnes, Devon. January 9, 2000. "Probable Systems." Wednesdays at Four: SUNY-Buffalo Poetics Program Lecture Series. Buffalo, New York. April 14, 1999.
Research Projects Undertaken
Rapid Eye Movement. Hastings: Reality Street Editions, 2009.
This book collects and modifies a large amount of found textual material related to dreams. It presents two bands of text which run continuously throughout the book; the top band collages together fragments from actual dreams, while the lower band juxtaposes writing on the subject of dreams. The book thus investigates the use of the sign “dream” in a number of social discourses, including advertising, contemporary literature, psychoanalysis, popular culture, song lyrics, religious literature.
Qualification Details
Doctor of Philosophy, English Literature
University of Western Ontario (1997)
Master of Arts, English Literature
University of Western Ontario (1993)
Honours Bachelor of Arts, English Literature and Art History
Carleton University (1992)
Research Expertise
Literature since 1945 (with a special focus on poetry and poetics); Literary Theory; Canadian Literature; Conceptual Poetics; Creative Writing
Teaching Expertise
•Senior Lecturer, Roehampton University, London (2003-present). Poetry and Innovative Form (graduate level); Creative Reading and Viewing: Theory for Creative Writers (graduate level); The Short Poetic Sequence; Writing Poetry. I have also designed the rationale and syllabus for a BA course on eco-criticism, which will be offered next year.
•Lecturer (0.5 FTE), Dartington College of Arts, Devon, England (2001-2). Critical Theory (graduate level); Materialities and Narratives.
•Visiting Lecturer, Royal Holloway College, University Of London (1999-2001). Postmodernism and Poetry (graduate level); Philosophy and Literature; Modern Critical Theory; Critical Practice II.
•Sessional Lecturer, University of Western Ontario (1997-1998). Theories of Literature and Culture; Reading Popular Culture; Creative Writing; Principles of Writing and Expository Method (Online).
•Teaching Assistant, University of Western Ontario (1992-1997). Seminar leader, and occasional lecturer in General Literature and Composition; Western Literature and Civilization; General Introduction to Film; Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Other Forms of Romance and Satire.