Peter Middleton

Ph.D 1979 (English), Sheffield
BA 1973, Oxford
Postgraduate studies (English), SUNY Buffalo, 1977-1978

Modern and contemporary poetry; twentieth and twenty-first century science and literature; modern British writing; climate change in recent fiction and poetry; creative non-fiction.

Editorial boards, journals: English, Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry, New Formations, Textual Practice. Editorial boards, series: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine; Bloomsbury Studies in Critical Poetics.

Books

Physics Envy: American Poetry and Science in the Cold War and After, Univ. of Chicago Press, 2015.

 

Teaching Modernist Poetry, ed. Nicky Marsh and Peter Middleton, Palgrave, 2010.

 

Distant Reading: Performance, Readership and Consumption in Contemporary Poetry, Alabama Univ. Press, 2005

 

Literatures of Memory: History, Time and Space in Postwar Writing, with Tim Woods, Manchester Univ. Press, 2000.

 

The Inward Gaze: Masculinity and Subjectivity in Modern Culture, Routledge, 1992.

Recent Articles

“Warring Clans, Podsolized Ground: Language in Contemporary UK Poetry,” in Modernist Legacies: Trends and Faultlines in British Poetry Today, ed. Abigail Lang and David Nowell-Smith, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

 

“Epigenetics and Poetry: Challenges to Genetic Determinism in Michael Byers’ Long for this World and Mei-mei  Berssenbrugge’s ‘The Four Year Old Girl’,” Textual Practice (2015).

 

“Discoverable Unknowns: Olson’s Lifelong Preoccupation with the Sciences,” in Contemporary Olson, ed. David Herd, Univ. of Manchester Press, 2015.

 

“Poetry, Physics and the Scientific Attitude at Mid-Century,” Modernism/Modernity (2014).

“The London Cut: Poetry and Science,” in The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary British and Irish Poetry, ed. Peter Robinson, Oxford Univ. Press, 2013.

 

“When L=A: Language, Authorship, and Equality in L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Magazine,” in Among Friends: Engendering the Social Site of Poetry, ed. Anne Dewey and Libbie Rifkin, Univ. of Iowa Press, 2013.

 

“Fictions of Global Crisis,” in Legacies of Modernism: Historicizing Contemporary Fiction, ed. David James, Cambridge Univ. Press, 2011.

 

“The Longing of the Long Poem,” Jacket (2010).

 

“Scenes of Instruction: Robert Creeley’s Reflexive Poetics.” in Form, Power, and Person in Robert Creeley’s Life and Work, ed. Steve McCaffery and Stephen Fredman Univ. of Iowa Press, 2010.

 

“Open Oppen : Linguistic fragmentation and the poetic proposition,” Textual Practice (2010).

 

“The ‘Final Finding of the Ear’: Wallace Stevens’ Modernist Soundscapes,” The Wallace Stevens Journal (2009)

 

“Strips: Scientific language in poetry,” Textual Practice (2009).