Post:	Lecturer in English
Location:	Arts B B329
Email:	K.Sutherland@sussex.ac.uk
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Biography

Keston Sutherland is the editor of the poetics and critical theory journal QUID and co-editor (with Andrea Brady) of Barque Press.

I did my BA at Cambridge, 1994-7, then a year at Harvard as the Joseph Hodges Choate Fellow, then a PhD at Cambridge.  I joined Sussex in 2004.

Role

Lecturer in English.

In Autumn 2009, convenor of the MA programs in Critical Theory and in Creative and Critical Writing.

Research

Contemporary and twentieth century English and American poetry (especially J.H. Prynne), Marx, Marxism and Frankfurt School critical theory, phenomenology, close reading, poetics, bathos, stupefaction, Beckett, Wordsworth. 

Teaching

Teaching for Autumn term 2009

I will be teaching the following courses in the Autumn term: 

• Lyric Poetry (2nd year UG)
• Special Author: William Wordsworth (3rd year UG)
• Marxism and Creative Writing (MA)

Lectures 

• Close Reading: Introduction. Tuesday 13th October, 10-11, A2.
• Close Reading: Paradise Lost. Tuesday 27th October, 10-11, A2.
• What Is Literature?: The Prelude. Monday 9th November, 11-12, Chichester 1.
• Culture and Revolution: '1917 and Commodification.' Tuesday 17th November, 2-4, EDB 121.

Publications

Poetry leaks:

Stress Position has just been published by Barque. There's a new film on You Tube of a reading I gave in Cork earlier this year at the SoundEye festival of most of part 2 of the poem. Watch the four parts here: part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4.

John Wilkinson on Hot White Andy in Jacket. 

Chris Goode on Hot White Andy (search here).

Two essays on Hot White Andy by Neil Pattison and by J.H. Prynne here.

Robert Potts in The Observer on Neocosis.

 

 

Publications:

 

1. Monographs:

 

• Uses of Stupefaction. Forthcoming from Seagull Books (dist. University of Chicago Press), 2010.

2. Essays, chapters, articles, reviews:

 

• 'What is Bathos?' Forthcoming in On Bathos. Ed. Sara Crangle and Peter Nicholls. London: Continuum, 2010.

• 'Veronica Forrest-Thomson for Readers.' Forthcoming in Kenyon Review, 2010.

• 'Upstairs Downstairs: from Intensity to Entitlement.' Mute (2009).

• 'Happiness in Writing'. World Picture 3 (2009). 

• 'XL Prynne' anthologised in A Manner of Utterance: The Poetry of J.H. Prynne. Ed. Ian Brinton. Exeter: Shearsman, 2009: 104-132. First published in Complicities: British Poetry 1945-2007. Ed. Sam Ladkin and Robin Purves. Prague: Literaria Pragensia, 2007.  

• 'Close Writing.' Forthcoming in Frank O'Hara Now. Ed. Robert Hampson and Will Montgomery. Liverpool: Liverpool UP, 2010.

• 'Life in Rodefer' Chicago Review 54:3 (2009) 29-37.

• 'The Editor's Parenthesis: Marxism and Poetry' Quid 19 (2008) 5-14.

• 'Ethica Nullius' (on J.H. Prynne's late poetry) in Avant-Post: The Avant-Garde Under "post-" Conditions (Prague: Literaria Pragensia, 2006); republished in Foreign Literature Studies (Wuhan, China), Vol.30, No.3,  (June 2008) 14-23.

• 'Marx in Jargon' World Picture 1 (2008)

• 'To The Honourable Ambassador Confer Blanck (On Poetry and Stupidity in General)' Quid 18 (2007)

• 'Vagueness, Poetry' in Contemporary Poetics Ed. Louis Armand (Evanston: Northwestern UP, 2007) 

• 'Poetics' (review of books published in 2005) The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory Vol.15 (Oxford: OUP, 2007)

• 'Poetics' (review of books published in 2004) The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory Vol.14 (Oxford: OUP, 2006)

• 'Comment and Homage' (on J.H. Prynne) Quid 17 2006 [this issue is a Festschrift of 31 articles, which I edited]

 

• 'A Letter to Simon Jarvis' On Company Time: Reading Exercises for the Management Class 2006

 

• 'Theses on Need' (Translation of Theodor Adorno, 'Thesen über Bedürfnis') Quid 2006

• 'What's The Ugliest Part of Your Market-Researched Anaclitic Affect Repertoire?' in Academy Zappa: Proceedings of the First International Conference of Esemplastic Zappology. Ed. Ben Watson and Esther Leslie, 2005
• 'For Carol Mirakove' Edinburgh Review 114, 2004
• 'The True, the Good, the Beautiful and the Baghdad Central Detention Centre' Quid 2004
• 'What is Called John Wilkinson?' The Gig 2004
• 'Disappointment' (Translation of Herbert Marcuse, 'Enttäuschung' Quid 2004)
• 'Junk Subjectivity' Mute 2004
• 'Four Theses on Speed' Quid 2004
• 'Prosody and Reconciliation' The Gig, 2004
• 'A Short Critique of Pacifism' Circulars 2003
• 'Vagueness, Poetry' Quid, 2001
• 'The Trade in Bathos' Jacket, 2000
• 'Nervous Breakdowns in Chris Emery's The Cutting Room' Quid, 2000
• 'On the Accomplishment of Knowing One's Place' The Poetry of Peter Riley. Ed. Nate Dorward, 1999

 

2. Poetry collections include:

• Stress Position, 2009
• Hot White Andy, 2007 
• Neocosis, 2005
• Neutrality, 2004
• The Rictus Flag, 2003
• Antifreeze, 2002.

Translations of my poetry in:

• Wozu Vögel, Bücher, Jazz? Gedichte aus England. Ed. Hans Thill (German)

• Action Poetique (French; poems plus an interview)

• Chinese newspapers.

   

Listen to a (red-eyed, late night) interview on poetry and politics online:

http://thetangentpress.org/radio.htm

 

Recent Conference, Colloquium and Seminar Papers:

 

'On Wrong Poetry.' Boise State University, the University of Chicago, April 2009.
'Veronica Forrest-Thomson for Readers.' Cambridge 17th January 2009.
'Lyric in Perpetuity.' Long Poems:::Major Forms, University of Sussex, 17th May 2008.

'Close Writing.' Frank O'Hara Symposium, University of Sussex, Friday 11th April 2008.

'Niceties for Cannibals, or, is there a "theory" of commodity fetishism in Das Kapital?' Senate House, London, 19th March 2008; Cambridge, 17th October 2008.
'The concept of globalisation and the diction of social analysis.' University of Southampton, 2nd May 2007.
'On Poetry and Stupidity in General.' University of Chicago, Miami University, SUNY Buffalo, April 2007
'Nowhere else in the market: bathos and ethics.' Birkbeck, 14th December 2006  

'Vocal Stupor 2: Love Poetry.' Dundee, June 2006
'Vocal Stupor 1: Negative Dialectics.' Sussex, 2006
'Comp., Capital and Unreality.' Cambridge, 2005, Birkbeck, 2005, Sussex, 2005
 'The Spirit of Poetry.'  The Pearl River Poetry Conference, Guangzhou, China, 2005
'Enjambment and Internal Crisis.' (on W.S. Graham) Cambridge, 2005