Fellow in Focus: Professor Anthony Caleshu

Recorded November 26, 2024. Trinity Long Room Hub Visiting Research
Fellow Professor Anthony Caleshu (University of Plymouth) in
conversation with Professor Philip Coleman (School of English,
TCD). Bio I wrote my PhD at National University of Ireland, Galway
(on the American poet, James Tate), and began working at University
of Plymouth in 2003. I became Professor of Poetry and Creative
Writing in 2012.  My chief interest is Contemporary Poetry.
I've written 5 books of poetry and 3 books about poetry. I also
write short fiction, and have recently completed a screenplay. Past
writing publications include a novella as well.   
Critical interests include Creative Health. My current work is
around the benefit of Community Assets (Arts & Cultural
organisations) and Social Prescription to support those with common
mental health symptoms. I was PI for the AHRC-funded 'Poets Respond
to Covid-19' project (2020-2021). Our published project findings
about the benefit of poetry to health and well-being during the
pandemic were covered by over 200 media outlets around the
world.  All of my writing is research led and often stems from
my wider interest in the creative arts and philosophy. My fifth and
most recent book of poetry, Xenia etc. (Shearsman, 2023) aims
to re-invigorate the ekphrastic tradition, spring-boarding from
contemporary visual art into an exploration of the contemporary
condition (exploring sexuality and gender in the paintings of Julie
Curtiss, landscape and the environment in the work of Shara Hughes
and Emma Webster, and race in the work of Henry Taylor). 
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