Jane Draycott

Lecturer

Current Teaching

Distance Learning MA in Creative Writing; Distance Learning PhD in Creative Writing;

Profile

Jane Draycott was born in 1954 and studied at King's College London and Bristol, where she took a postgraduate degree in Medieval English Literature. Her most recent poetry collection The Occupant (Carcanet 2016) is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation that follows her 2009 collecton Over, shortlisted for the T S Eliot Prize.

Listed as one of 20 'Next Generation' poets by the PBS/Arts Council (2004), her first two collections No Theatre (Smith/Doorstop 1996) and Prince Rupert's Drop (OUP 1999) were both nominated for the Forward Poetry Prize, and her 2004 collection The Night Tree (Oxford Poets) was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. In 2002 she was winner of the Keats Shelley Prize for Poetry, and was nominated for the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem. She was poet-in-residence at the River and Rowing Museum, Henley, creating sound montages and an audio archive with London's working watermen, as well as a short collection, Tideway, illustrated by Peter Hay (Two Rivers Press 2002).

Other collaborative work includes award-winning audio-montages with Elizabeth James for BBC Radio3, LBC and the web, and the Online/Offline Writing and Sound Project for trAce Online Writing Department at Nottingham Trent University, contributions to the British Film Institute projects Psychopoetica and Poets on Pasolini: A New Decameron (devised by Simon Barraclough), as well as to Beginning to See the Light, a film/performance project curated by Jaybird Live LIterature & The UK Poetry Society.

In addition to her teaching at Lancaster she is Senior Course Tutor on the MSt Creative Writing at the University of Oxford, and Tutor for the Arvon Foundation and the Poetry School, London. In 2004, she designed and delivered the British Council's Transcripts (South Asia) and Crossing Borders international writing projects. She was Royal Literary Fund Fellow 2004-06 at Oxford Brookes and 2010-12 at Aston University, and an RLF Lector 2013-16. In 2013 she completed a two-month residency in the Netherlands hosted by the Dutch Foundation for Literature.

She has been on the judging panels for the TS Eliot Prize for Poetry and the Popescu Prize for European Poetry in Translation. Her translation of the 14th-century dream vision Pearl was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation 2011 and a Times Stephen Spender Prizewinner. Storms Under the Skin, translations of selected poems of the 20th-c. artist-poet Henri Michaux, is due from Two Rivers Press in 2017

Research Overview

My principal areas of practical research are in poetry and poetic translation, poetic sound-montage and the short story. I have been interested in the connections between medieval dream narratives and the jump-cut and dramatic effects of some modernist poetry - my current new work 'After Awater' takes its lead from the long 1934 poem 'Awater' by Dutch poet Martinus Nijhoff. I am also currently completing translations of some of the 1930s poems of Henri Michaux.

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The Winning Suit
Draycott, J.A. 1/05/2018
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Punching Above its Weight: Dutch Poetry in English, A Selection 2013-2017
Draycott, J.A. 1/12/2017 Enchanting Verses Literary Review, XXVI
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The Experiment
Draycott, J.A. 17/09/2017 Poetry London, Summer 2017
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Ceaseless Tintinnabulaiton
Draycott, J.A. 2017
Other chapter contribution

No 3 from Uses for the Thames: Poems on the Underground
Draycott, J.A. 11/2016
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The Occupant
Draycott, J.A. 11/2016 Manchester : Carcanet Press. 64 p. ISBN: 9781784103002. Electronic ISBN: 9781784103019.
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No 3 from Uses for the Thames
Draycott, J.A. 15/09/2016 In: 100 Prized Poems. London : Faber ISBN: 9780571333172.
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Concatenating: review of 'Pearl' translated by Simon Armitage (Faber2016)
Draycott, J.A. 09/2016 In: PN Review. 43 , 1
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The Occupant
Draycott, J.A. 2016 Modern Poetry in Translation, 2016
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Who keeps observance in the fever room: - a poetry film
Draycott, J.A., Silva, C. 2016
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After Awater: Jane Draycott joins the trail
Draycott, J.A. 12/2015 In: Poetry News.
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After Awater (audio)
Draycott, J.A. 12/2015
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The Dictionary Game & You Say that Bookcase: two poems
Draycott, J.A. 11/2015 In: Magma Poetry.
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Pearl: :Jane Draycott talks to Julia Copus
Draycott, J.A. 23/07/2015
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Wanted: a travelling companion
Draycott, J. 07/2015
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Rosa Mme A Meilland ('Peace')
Draycott, J. 2015 In: The arts of peace. Two Rivers Press 1 p. ISBN: 9781909747043.
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This is what poetry is for: 'The Word Exchange': a review
Draycott, J. 2015 In: Modern Poetry in Translation. 2014 , 2, 4 p.
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Namesake
Draycott, J. 06/2014 In: Times Literary Supplement. 1 p.
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Italy to Lord
Draycott, J. 03/2014 In: Poetry Review. 104, 1, 1 p.
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Prince Rupert's drop
Draycott, J. 2014
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Six Henri Michaux poems in translation
Draycott, J. 2014 In: Modern Poetry in Translation. 2014 , 2, 4 p.
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The return
Draycott, J. 2014
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The tor
Draycott, J. 2014
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It won't be long
Draycott, J. 2013 In: Newspaper taxis. Seren Books 1 p. ISBN: 9781781720158.
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Sensation
Draycott, J. 2013 In: A mutual friend. Two Rivers Press ISBN: 9781901677782.
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The staircase
Draycott, J. 2013 In: Creative writing. Suffolk : Creative Writing Studies ISBN: 9781907076114.
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from 'Pearl'
Draycott, J. 2012 In: Tokens for the foundlings. Bridgend : Seren Books ISBN: 9781854115812.
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Aerodrome
Draycott, J. 2011 In: The captain's tower. Bridgend : Seren Books ISBN: 978-1854115607.
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Pearl: a translation
Draycott, J. 2011 Manchester : Carcanet Oxford Poets. 80 p. ISBN: 978 1 906188 01 6.
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In Winter's House
Draycott, J. 18/12/2010 In: The Guardian.
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Ten poems
Draycott, J. 2010 In: Joining music with reason . Chipping Norton : Waywiser Press ISBN: 978-1904130406.
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The Halt
Draycott, J. 2010 In: Glimmer. Blaenau Ffestiniog : Cinnamon Press
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The shower scene
Draycott, J. 2010 In: Mahattan Review. 14, 1, 1 p.
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Over
Draycott, J. 2009 Manchester : Carcanet Oxford Poets. 80 p. ISBN: 978 1 903039 92 2.
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Reef
Draycott, J. 2009 In: Riptide Journal. 4
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Six Poems
Draycott, J. 2009 In: Divers. Cardiff : Mulfran Press
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Alpha
Draycott, J. 2008 In: Poetry Review.
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Picnic
Draycott, J. 2008 In: Poetry Review.
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The Night Tree
Draycott, J. 2004 Manchester : Carcanet Oxford Poets. 96 p. ISBN: 190303972X.
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Tideway
Draycott, J. 2002 Reading : Two Rivers Press. 60 p.
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from Tideway
Draycott, J. 2002 In: The Guardian.
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Ten Poems
Draycott, J. 2001 In: Oxford Poets Anthology 2001. Manchester : Carcanet Oxford Poets ISBN: 978 1 903039 52 6.
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Prince Rupert's Drop
Draycott, J. 19/02/2000 In: The Guardian.
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Dior Fashionplate
Draycott, J. 02/2000 In: The Independent.
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Prince Rupert's Drop
Draycott, J. 2000 In: The Oxford book of sonnets. Oxford : Oxford University Press p. 327. 1 p. ISBN: 978-0192142672.
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Prince Rupert's Drop
Draycott, J. 1999 Oxford : Oxford University Press. 54 p. ISBN: 978-1903039496.
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Christina the Astonishing
Draycott, J., Saunders, L. 1998 Reading : Two Rivers Press. 96 p.
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No Theatre
Draycott, J. 1996 Smith/Doorstop. 40 p.
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