John Hall CURRICULUM VITAE
Address: (Work) Falmouth University, AIR Building, Penryn Campus, Penryn, Cornwall, TR10 9EZ
John.Hall@falmouth.ac.uk
www.johnhallpoet.org.uk
Posts and roles: Professor of Performance Writing, Falmouth University
Visiting Professor, York St John University
Academic/Professional Qualifications:
2005 PhD (Dartington / University of Plymouth) (Writings, Readings and Not Writing: poems, prose fiction and essays)
1971 Postgraduate teaching certificate (University of Southampton)
1967 BA (Hons) English Literature (University of Cambridge)
Previous posts with responsibility (all at Dartington College of Arts)
2002-2010 Associate Director of Research
1990-2002 Vice Principal (Academic)
1999 - 2002 MA Tutor for new integrated masters programme
1994 - 1996 Director: Performance Writing, Dartington College of Arts
1990 - 1994 Director of the Undergraduate Programme, Dartington College of Arts
Publications
A: Single author books
Forthcoming
2014 (with Lee Harwood) Loose Packed (playing card poems) Manchester: Like this Press.
Published (Poems unless otherwise noted)
2013 Keepsache (a companion selection to else here). Hastings: etruscan books
2013 Essays on Performance Writing, Poetics and Poetry
Volume 1: On Performance Writing, with Pedagogical Sketches;
Volume 2: Writing towards Writing and Reading: On Poetics, with Implicated Readings. Bristol: Shearsman Books.
2011 Interscriptions (with Peter Hughes) Newton le Willows: Knives Forks and Spoons Press
2008b The Week’s Bad Groan Old Hunstanton: Oystercatcher
2008a Thirteen Ways of Talking about Performance Writing (text of a ‘lecture’) Plymouth: PCAD
2007a Couldn’t You? Exeter: Shearsman
2005 Apricot Pages (novella) Hastings: Reality Street
1999a Else Here : Selected Poems Buckfastleigh: etruscan books
1981 Repressed Intimations Durham: Figs No. 6
1978c Couch Grass, Bishops Stortford: Great Works
1978b Malo-Lactic Ferment, Lewes: Ferry, Press
1978a Meaning Insomnia, Leeds: Grosseteste
1972 Days, Lincoln: Grosseteste
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Between the Cities, Lincoln: Grosseteste
B: Inclusions in poetry anthologies
2012 Excerpts from The Week’s Bad Groan in Sea Pie: a Shearsman anthology of Oystercatcher poetry (Bristol: Shearsman) 9-10.
2006a ‘Fourth Argument’ (from ‘Between the Fragments’) in the Swayed to the West Anthology (ed. Nicholas Johnson), Arnolfini, Bristol
1990 'Couch Grass', 'Meaning Insomnia' and 'Reeves Timber Yard' anthologised in A Various Art (London: Paladin; first published by Carcanet Press, 1987)
1987 'A Various Art'. edited by. A. Crozier & T. Longville Carcanet, Manchester
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The Best of the Ear in a Wheatfield 1973-76, A Portrait of a Magazine. Ed. K. Hemensley, Melbourne
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in Matières d’Angleterre Ed P. Joris and P. Buck; in’hui 19, Amiens (poems translated by Jacques Darras)
C: Recent inclusions of poems in special collections and journals
2013 ‘Wrong from the Middle’, in Snow, lit rev, 2 (Lewes, East Sussex)
2012 ‘Geraldine misquoted in Georgia’ in Gathered Here Today: Celebrating Geraldine Monk at 60 (Newton-le-Willows: Knives Forks and Spoons Press)
2009 ‘Take Stock Now’ (A hand at Loose Packed), with Lee Harwood, Tears in the Fence 50, (Blandford Forum), pp. 101-103
2008 ‘Ho Me’, set of visual poems, Veer Off (London, Birkbeck: Veer Books), p.199
2008 ’37 Lines from and for Lee Harwood’ and ‘Lee Harwood, map-reader’ in A Samizdat for Lee Harwood from his friends ed. Patricia Hope Scanlan, (Hove: Artery Editions)
2008 ‘An Essay on Ignorance’, in Alan Baker (ed.) Litter Magazine, http://www.leafepress.com/litter1/johnhall/index.html
2007 ‘A brief essay on framing’, a visual poem, Veer Away (London, Birkbeck: Veer Books), p.71
D: Articles, chapters in books etc.
Forthcoming
2014 ‘Performance Writing: Twenty-years and still counting’ in special issue of Journal of Writing in Creative Practices. issue ed. Jerome Fletcher
Published
2014 ‘ “My head was away and singing”: Kelvin Corcoran on and in song’ in The Writing Occurs as Song: Essays on Kelvin Corcoran. ed. Andy Brown. Bristol: Shearsman Books
2013 ‘ET: the missing letters of Peter Hughes’s Behoven’ in 'An intuition of the particular': some essays on the poetry of Peter Hughes ed. Ian Brinton. Bristol: Shearsman Books
2012 Review of Strictly Illegal: John Wieners with Gilbert and George (Brighton: Artery Editions, 2011) in Tears in the Fence, No. 55 Summer 2012. Pp. 127-130.
2012 'Foot, mouth and ear: some thoughts on prosody and performance' in On Foot issue of Performance Research Journal, Vol. 17, No 2 (April 2012), pp. 36-41
2011 ‘Making it new out of old hat: the words in Lone Twin’, chapter in Good Luck Everybody: Lone Twin - Journeys, Performances, Conversations, edited by Carl Lavery and David Williams, Aberystwyth: Performance Research Books
2011 (with Simon Murray) ‘Arts for what, for where, for whom? Fragmentary reflections on Dartington College of Arts, 1961 – 2010.’ Theatre, Dance and Performance Training, Vol. 2, No 1 (London: Routledge), pp. 54-71
2011 Preface to That Curious Fellow: Captain Basil Hall, R.N., by James McCarthy. Dunheath: Whittles Publishing Limited.
2010 ‘Do Not Ignore: Order-words in domestic and public spaces’ in Esitys 3 (Helsinki), pp. 8-13.
2010 ‘Dress and Address: “John James” in John James’, in Simon Perril (ed.), Salt Companion to John James (Great Wilbraham, Cambridge: Salt Publishing), pp. 11-29
2009 ‘So you don’t tell all your meaning: two poems by Douglas Oliver’, in Cambridge Literary Review, Vol. 1 No 1 (Cambridge), pp. 178-188 (http://www.cambridgeliteraryreview.org/wp-content/uploads/HallCLR1.pdf)
2009 ‘An Afterword’, in David Prior, Black Water Brown Water, Totnes: Acts of Language
2009 ‘Julian Hall and The Senior Commoner’, Faber Finds website (http://www.faber.co.uk/article/2009/6/john-hall-on-senior-commoner) 2008 ‘Beginning to read Alice Notley’s In the Pines’, in Constellation: Alice Notley, ed. Edmund Hardy and Carol Watts, Birkbeck Centre for Poetics, Intercapillary Space and Openned (http://www.intercapillaryspace.org/2008/10/beginning-to-read-alice-notleys-in.html ) 2008 ‘Five minutes on Poetry and Public Language, the topic and the book so named’, in Part 1: Poetry and Public Language feature (ed. Tony Lopez), Pores 5, ed. Will Rowe (http://www.pores.bbk.ac.uk/issues/issue5/poetry-and-public-language) 2008 ‘Reading J.H. Prynne’s “Acquisition of Love” and anticipating “Blue Slides at Rest”, Readings 3, ed. Piers Hugill, Aodán McCardle, & Stephen Mooney (http://www.bbk.ac.uk/readings/issues/issue3/article1)
2008 ‘Karen Mac Cormack’s Implexures: an Implicated Reading’, in Antiphonies: Essays on Women’s Experimental Poetries in Canada ed. Nate Dorward (Willowdale, Ontario: The Gig), pp. 227-247
2007 ‘Falling towards each other: Occasions of Elegy’ in Necessary Steps: Poetry, Elegy, Walking, Spirit. ed. David Kennedy (Exeter: Shearsman), pp. 37-48
2006 ‘Punishment Routines’ in For J.H. Prynne, In Celebration, 24th June 2006 (Quid 17, ed. Keston Sutherland, Falmer, Brighton)
2006 'Performance Writing'; entry in the A Lexicon issue of Performance Research Vol. 11, No 3, (September 2006), pp. 89-91.
2006 ‘Ventriloquising Against Harm, a review of Douglas Oliver’s Whisper “Louise”’, Jacket 29, April 2006, http://jacketmagazine.com/29/hall-oliver.html
2006 ‘Ideas, Things and Idea-Things’ Times Higher Education Supplement, Feb 10, 2006, p.15
2005 ‘As a’. a contribution after the event, to A forum on Women Writers, Birkbeck University of London. In 'Readings' 2: Responses and Reactions to Poetries, ed. Piers Hugill, Aodán McCardle, & Stephen Mooney
2004 ‘Time-play-space’: playing up the visual in writing in Pores 3: An Avant-gardist Journal of Poetics Research (c. 10 page illustrated article) (http://www.bbk.ac.uk/pores/)
2004 ‘Reading Illegible Pages’ in On The Page issue of Performance Research Journal, 9.2 (October 2004); pp. 15-23; ISSN 1352-8165; IBSN 0-415-34738-6
2003 ‘Eluded Readings: trying to tell stories about reading some recent poems’ in The Gig 15 (ed. Nate Dorward (Willowdale, Ontario, September 2003) pp. 35-54
2003 ‘Eluded Readings: trying to tell stories about reading some recent poems’. Talk at Birkbeck College, London, March 22nd 2003
2002 ‘Some things I want to say about Doug’ in A meeting for Douglas Oliver (ed. Wendy Mulford and Peter Riley) (Cambridge et al: infernal methods, Street Editions and Poetical Histories) pp. 10-13
2002 ‘Falling towards each other: Occasions of Elegy’ in The Paper, Issue 5 October (ed. David Kennedy, Sheffield), pp. 36-46;
2002 ‘Terms of Engagement in F.T. Prince’ in P.N.Review (ed. Michael Schmidt), September-October 2002, (Vol. 29. no 1), pp. 36-38
2000 ‘On Lines on the Liver and Tracks and Mineshafts’ and ‘before you fall: postlude on a prelude’ in The Poetry of Peter Riley (ed. Nate Dorward), The Gig 4/5 (Willowdale, Canada) ISSN 1481-5133
1999 Review of The Anxiety of interdisciplinarity (ed. Alex Coles and Alexia Defert) in Performance Research Vol. 4, No 3 (pp. 103 -106)
1999 Conference paper: ‘Issues for discipline and context: designing a taught postgraduate programme in performance practices’ (Videre og affernddanneelse for scenekunstere I Nordern; Oslo: Norway 12th – 14th November 1999)
1998 ‘Missing persons: personal pronouns in performance writing’ (Grammar for Performance Writers 3) in Performance Research Vol. 3, No 1 (pp. 87-90)
1998 ‘John Riley, poet’ in Tears in the Fence (ed. David Caddy), No 20 (Spring 1998) (pp. 62-68) ISSN 0266 5816
1996 ‘Performed through’ (Grammar for Performance Writers 2) in Performance Research Vol. 2, No 1 (pp. 68-72)
1996 ‘Interdisciplinarity: disciplines and arts practice’ in Dreams and Reconstructions: Conference Papers (from the 2nd Concepts Conference, Held in Oporto, Portugal, April 1995), ed. Gerald Lidstone and Noel Witts (Leicester: Concepts, Department of Visual & Performing Arts, De Montfort University, 1996).
1996 ‘Sentenced to’ (Grammar for Performance Writers 1) in Performance Research Vol. 1, No 1 (Spring 1996) pp. 98-102
1991 'Writing and Not-Writing', in Poets on Writing: Britain 1970-1991 , ed. Denise Riley (London: The Macmillan Press)
2013 ‘Loss in Blossom’, in Visual Poetics, curated by David Miller and Chris McCabe, The Poetry Library, South Bank Centre, London. 12 Feb – 14 April.
2010 ‘Interscriptions’ (with Peter Hughes) and ‘A void’, the Light Studio, Arnolfini, Bristol as part of PW10, May 7-9
2009 Artifice & Candour, solo exhibition, Viewpoint Gallery, Plymouth College of Art, March 11 – 23 (http://www.plymouthart.ac.uk/artadvantage.php?pageID=97&exhID=20#.UTm9LrQ9Xdk)
2005 What Does This Know?, solo exhibition, Dartington Gallery, July 19 - 29
2004 ‘Changing Lines’ (three frames) and ‘Illegible / ineligible / intelligible’ (two frames) in Performance Writing (1994 – 2004): an exhibition from the performance writing course at dartington college of arts (curated by Mark Leahy and Deborah Price); Exeter Phoenix 29 April – 16 May; Dartington Gallery 24 – 30 May
2004 ‘Light lies’ (four frames) exhibited for small press fair in Exeter Library (15 May)
2002 Through the Gap. Solo exhibition of visual poems on Shearsman website
2002 Loose-id-ity Solo exhibition of visual poems (solo exhibition) Dartington Gallery (Feb)
F: Recent papers, and other professional activities (include)
2013 ‘Performance Writing and Materialities of Language’, Plymouth College of Arts, 10th December
2013 ‘The idea of practice and its relation to research’, York St, John University, 27th November
2013 ‘Thinking and working with text across page, frame, screen and sound: a particular path through “performance writing”. York St John, University, 26th November.
2013 ‘Reading (in, between and beyond) Cities’, a talk given in Bristol Central Library on Sunday 17th November as part of the reading in the City Project curated by Showrooms Project in association with other Bristol arts organisations.
2013 state of the person / address, Who is writing? / Who is reading? ‘An evening of poetry, conversation, and points inbetween, in which Chris is joined by poet and performance thinker John Hall.' Part of the Chris Goode and Company residency in the Bike Shed Theatre, Exeter. Thursday 27th June
2013 ‘Roles for practice in doctoral research in the arts’, Department of English and Humanities, Birkbeck University of London, 23rd January
2012 Thompsons’ Live: Episode 3 (October 22nd) ; one in a series of podcasts ‘from Chris Goode & Company, focusing on conversation around theatre and performance, poetry and music, arts and ideas’. With Phelim McDermott and Rajni Shah. http://chrisgoodeandco.podbean.com/
2012 ‘Towards Song: re-shaping spoken lyric’, with David Prior, paper given at The Shape of Song: A Conference on Lyric Poetry, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge, Sat. 7th July.
2012 Closing words: drawing together the threads, a place, a space, A Research Focus Conference, University of Worcester, Thursday 21st June.
2012 Panel member for discussion on ‘Performance Writing, looking ahead’, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, May 6th.
2012 John James at Birkbeck: book launch, with John James reading, Simon Perril reading, brief talks from Rod Mengham, Simon Perril and John Hall, and discussion. Keynes Library, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD, March 9th.
2012 ‘Lyric & Polis, a symposium of poetry and poetics’, curated by Marianne Morris, reading and discursive contribution, University College Falmouth, 17 - 18 February
2011 'Repeatedly avoiding repetition'. A reading and showing as part of again: on repetition, an informal symposium on repetition in practice. The Project Space, SPACE Studios, London E8 3RH. Organised by Marianne Holm Hansen. 26.11.11
2011 ‘Practising and essaying near the sign of Performance Writing’, a talk within the Theatre Studies Seminar Series, University of Glasgow, Thursday 17 February.
2010 ‘Order words / public shapes’, invited talk at ANTI Contemporary Art Festival, Kuopio, Finland, September 28th – October 1st
2010 Consultation meeting with senior researchers, advising on PGR student research training, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Royal Holloway University of London, May 28th
2010 Thirteen Ways of Talking About Performance Writing, delivered as lecture as part of PW10, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, May 9th
2010 Host Poet, Full Bloom Renga, Old Orchard, Cotehele House, Cornwall (Part of the Full Bloom Festival, organised by the Orchard Network in collaboration with the National Trust), 25th April (http://www.orchardnetwork.org.uk/sites/default/files/files/fullbloomrengapd.pdf)
2010 Literature and Visual Culture, a talk in Cambridge University English Faculty, February 15th
2009 ‘The beats that unite: listening to Douglas Oliver’s prosody and its relation to his remarks on beat and stress’, a workshop in Variations on the Theme of Harm (A One-Day Conference on the work of Douglas Oliver ), Department of Literature, Film and Theatre Studies and the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex, December 5th
2009 Thirteen Ways of Talking About Performance Writing, delivered as part of symposium on the work of Joan Retallack, English Faculty, University of Cambridge, October 16th
2008 Participant in a symposium on and with Alice Notley, convened by Carol Watts at Birkbeck University of London.
2007 Member of the conference committee for Poetry and Public Language: a conference on contemporary poetry, University of Plymouth and Dartington College of Arts, March 30 – April 1st; included organising ‘Public Minutes’ (missed 31st March and 1st April through illness)
2006 ‘Reading Prynne’, The Graduate Lecture Series, Birkbeck College, in Association with the Contemporary Poetics Research Centre, delivered on 14.12.06. . With Keston Sutherland
2006 ‘Practice/Scholarship Interfaces in Research Degrees in Writing: Towards a Typology.’, paper delivered as part of Training needs for the PhD in Creative Writing, a day-conference within the AHRC Creative Writing Research Training (2004-2006), July 10th.
G: Recent Readings and Performances (include)
2014 SoundEye Festival of the Arts of the Word, Cork, Saturday 12th July.
2013 Reading in association with the Visual Poetry exhibition in the Saison Poetry London, South Bank London, 20th March.
2013 Black Huts Festival, Hastings. Saturday 2nd Nov, reading from Andrew Crozier’s work alongside Ian Brinton, John James, Wendy Mulford, Nicholas Johnson and John Seed; Sunday 3rd November, reading from Keepsache.
2013 Reading in etruscan books event, By Deep Water, in Deep Water, in Saison Poetry Library, South Bank, London, on 6th November.
2013 Small Publishers Fair, Conway Hall, London, 16th November, with Nicholas Johnson.
2012 Reading poems by Edward Dorn at the launch of his Collected Poems by Carcanet Press, London Review of Books, November 29th.
2012 Black Huts Festival, Hastings, reading work by Edward Dorn with Nicholas Johnson, Stuart Montgomery and Iain Sinclair; and reading in response to short films by Nichola Bruce, Roland Jarvis and Rebecca Marshall, with Nicholas Johnson. November 2nd – 4th.
2012 Reading at F.T. Prince centenary event with others. Southampton University. Sept. 20th.
2012 Performance Writing 12 Weekend, reading with Peter Jaeger, Marianne Morris, Harriet Tarlo and Nick Thurston, with improvisations by David Coulter, Arnolfini Gallery Bristol, May 5th.
2012 At Lyric and Polis, a symposium on poetry and poetics, (on panel with Emily Critchley) Sat. 18th February.
2011 Plymouth Language Club (held at Plymouth College of Art), 10th March
2010 Soundeye International Poetry Festival, Cork, July 14-18
2010 Dartington, with Amy De’Ath and Justin Katko, 12th June
2010 Runnymede Poetry Festival, Royal Holloway London University, March 20th
2009 Dartington Campus Readings, with Keston Sutherland, April 23rd
2008 Calder Bookshop, The Cut, South London, with Andrew Brewerton, January 30th
2007 Phoenix, Exeter, November 29th
2007 With Lee Harwood and Birdie Hall, as guest reader at the launch of Harwood’s Gifts Received, Poetry Society, London, April 20th 2007
H. Interviews, correspondence and other occasional pieces
2013 Interviewed by Hannah Silva for her blog and posted in three parts: Part I. On Visual Poetry; Part II. A Pack of Cards; Part III. On ‘the minimal performance’. To be found in reverse order on: http://hannahsilva.wordpress.com/tag/john-hall/
2012 ‘David Chaloner and John Hall, 23 letters from 1969-70’, in Angel Exhaust 22: The Romance of Insects, ed. Charles Bainbridge, Andrew Duncan and Linus Slug, pp. 104-137
2012 Certain Prose of The English Intelligencer, eds. Neil Pattison, Reitha Pattison and Luke Roberts, pp. 13-15, 16-19, 43-45, 100-103 and 114-116
2007 ‘When I hear Ella Fitzgerald Sing It’, an interview by Tim Allen in Don’t Start Me Talking: Interviews with Contemporary Poets. ed. Tim Allen and Andrew Duncan (Great Wilbraham, Cambridge: Salt Publishing) pp. 166-187
I. Critical Writing by others
2014 Peter Hughes, ‘Thinking Through Writing: Three Books by John Hall’ in Tears in the Fence, No. 59, Spring 2014.
2014 David Kennedy, ‘How to Write About Writing: Essays on Performance Writing, Poetics and Poetry, Vols 1 & 2.’ in Stride Magazine (http://www.stridemagazine.co.uk/Stride%20mag%202014/feb2014/johnHall.kennedy.htm)
2013 Sophie Mayer, ‘”Always an Alibi Available”: Performance Writing(s) & Text Festivals’. This reviews my Essays on Performance Writing, Poetics and Poetry, Vols. 1 and 2’ together with Tony Lopez’s The Text Festival: Language Art and Material Poetry. Archive of the Now. http://www.archiveofthenow.org/pages/always-an-alibi-available-performance-writings-text-festivals/
2011 Robert Sheppard, ‘John Hall: The Price of Houses the Cost of Food: The Poetics of Not Writing’, Chapter 3 in When Bad Times Made for Good Poetry: episodes in the history of the poetics of innovation, Exeter: Shearsman, pp. 55 – 67.
Residencies
2014 Cross-disciplinarian-in-residence, Jan–May 2014, School of Culture and Creative Arts, Glasgow University
2009 Plymouth College of Art
Editorial and other boards
2011- Associate Editor, Theatre, Dance and Performance Training, eds. Jonathan Pitches and Simon Murray, Routledge
2009 - Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry, eds. Robert Sheppard and Scott Thurston, Gylphi
1996 - Performance Research Journal, Routledge
2007 Conference committee for Poetry and Public Language: a conference on contemporary poetry, University of Plymouth and Dartington College of Arts, March 30 – April 1st
2002 - Board of Trustees, Actiontrack Performance Company, Somerset
1989/90 Founder member of the editorial collective of The Magazine of Cultural Studies (MOCS)
1981-1998 Board of Governors, Dartington College of Arts
Research Supervision
Supervised to completion: 6 PhDs
Mentored to completion: 2 PhDs by staff candidature on the basis of published works
Currently supervising: 6
Examination of Research Degrees
Examined: 3 PhD candidates (1 external); 2 MPhil (1 external)
Have chaired 6 other PhD examinations.
John Hall updated 14.07.2014
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