Dr Jack Underwood

Staff details

Dr Jack Underwood

Position

Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing

Department

English and Creative Writing

Email

j.underwood (@gold.ac.uk)

Jack is a poet, writer and critic, interested in the lyric, poetics, and new terminologies of writing practice.

Jack is a poet, writer and critic and is senior lecturer in creative writing. He is programme coordinator and admissions tutor for the BA Hons English with Creative Writing degree, and also tutors on the MA in Creative and Life Writing and supervises MPhil/PhD research projects.

Jack is also founder and editor of the Goldsmiths Shorts pamphlet series

Academic qualifications

  • PhD, 'Sense and Inaudibility/ Wakefield and Other Poems', Goldsmiths College, University of London, 2011 2011
  • MA in Creative and Life Writing, Goldsmiths College, University of London 2006
  • BA (Hons) in Creative and Cultural Studies, Norwich University of the Arts 2005

Research interests

Jack is primarily a poet, but has also published works of short fiction, flash fiction, essays and non-fiction, as well as literary criticism.

He is interested in poetics, and the development of new terminologies for writing practices, and his non-fiction work often explores analogies between poetry and other fields, such as physics, neuroscience and philosophy.

Publications and research outputs

Book

Bush, Courtney and Underwood, Jack. 2024. Thirteen Morissettes. Glasgow: SPAM Press. ISBN 9781915049230

Underwood, Jack. 2021. A Year in the New Life. London: Faber & Faber. ISBN 9780571367252

Underwood, Jack. 2021. NOT EVEN THIS: Parenthood, Poetry & Living Uncertainly. London: Corsair. ISBN 9781472156082

Book Section

Underwood, Jack. 2009. One of the poets in - Voice Recognition: 21 Poets for the 21st Century. In: James Byrne and Clare Pollard, eds. Voice Recognition: 21 Poets for the 21st Century. Bloodaxe Books Ltd. ISBN 978-1852248383

Article

Underwood, Jack. 2021. A Room, a Predicament. INQUE, 2, ISSN 2754-7787

Underwood, Jack. 2021. A Song About Singularities. Granta (online edition),

Underwood, Jack. 2021. Long Live Patience. PORT(27), pp. 172-174. ISSN 2046-052X

Other

Underwood, Jack. 2024. Song of My Having [Poem]. The Nation.

Underwood, Jack. 2024. Song of the Disgraced Person [Poem]. New York Review of Books.

Underwood, Jack. 2024. Song of New Friendship [Poem]. The Poetry Review, London.

Audio

Underwood, Jack; Allen, Rachael and Marshall, Hannah. 2023. Faber Poetry Podcast: Season 3: Episode 4: Lucy Mercer & Maggie Millner.

Underwood, Jack; Allen, Rachael and Marshall, Hannah. 2023. Faber Poetry Podcast: Season 3: Episode 3: Raymond Antrobus & Victoria Adukwei Bulley.

Underwood, Jack; Allen, Rachael and Marshall, Hannah. 2023. Faber Poetry Podcast: Season 3: Episode 2: Camille Ralphs & Stephanie Sy-Quia.

Thesis

Underwood, Jack. 2010. Wakefield and Other Poems / Sense and Inaudibility. Doctoral thesis, Goldsmiths, University of London

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