Dr Eleanor Perry

About

Poetry publications include Of Parasites and Proximities (Contraband Books, 2017); Meat • Volt • Interruption (Oystercatcher, 2015) and Venusberg (Veer Books, 2015). Her work engages with various forms and aesthetics, including visual poetry, prose poetry, experimental lyric essay, creative translation, and dialogic voice sequences. Previous projects include the anti-pastoral Borstal | Unthrum | Loom; STRATA, a site-specific engagement with the Canterbury Roman Museum (both extracts published at Blackbox Manifold); and the lyric essay fey (extract published at Junction Box). She is currently working on a sequence that engages with mental health and abstraction, from which extracts have been published in Tentacular and Erotoplasty 2.

Her recent critical research examines the binaries and hierarchies of gender, race and class that exist in the elegiac tradition and its scholarship, and why they need to be addressed. In addition, she has published articles on modes of inarticulacy and resistance in Maggie O’Sullivan’s murmur: tasks of mourning (Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry); and a broad survey of Claudia Rankine’s poetic work in the Critical Survey of American Literature.

She also edits the poetry zine DATABLEED with Dr Juha Virtanen.