The Writers of Wales Database

JARVIS, MATTHEW

Address: School of Cultural Studies, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, Lampeter Campus,
Ceredigion, SA48 7ED

Matthew Jarvis was born in Birmingham in 1971 and moved to Wales in 1994. He is currently the Anthony Dyson Fellow in Poetry in the School of Cultural Studies, University of Wales Trinity Saint David. His research focuses on the development of Welsh poetry in English since the 1960s and on British avant-garde poetry of the same period. He is particularly interested in environmental approaches to literature and in ideas about the construction of Welsh space and place. His work has been described as ‘pioneering criticism’ by Professor Jeremy Hooker.

Matthew has written the books Welsh Environments in Contemporary Poetry (University of Wales Press, 2008) and Ruth Bidgood (for the University of Wales Press ‘Writers of Wales’ series, 2012). His third book, a volume of new and selected essays on Welsh poetry in English, will be published in 2013 by Parthian. His pamphlet Becoming ‘Prifardd of English-speaking Wales’: The Reception of R. S. Thomas in the 1960s and Early 1970s was published by Trivium in 2009. He has also written numerous essays and reviews. For full details of his publications and for information about current projects, please visit Matthew’s personal website.

Matthew is a Research Associate of Swansea University’s Centre for Research into the English Literature and Language of Wales (CREW). He is a full member of the Welsh Academy. Formerly on the Committee of Poetry Wales, he serves on the English-Language Grants Panel of the Welsh Books Council and on the Members Committee of the Welsh Academy. He is co-Chair of the Association for Welsh Writing in English.

Selected Publications
Books
Welsh Environments in Contemporary Poetry (University of Wales Press, 2008)
Ruth Bidgood, Writers of Wales (University of Wales Press, 2012): in production

Pamphlets
Becoming ‘Prifardd of English-speaking Wales’: The Reception of R. S. Thomas in the 1960s and Early 1970s (Trivium, 2009)
 

Contributed to
Culture, Creativity and Environment: New Environmentalist Criticism (contributor) (Rodopi, 2007)
Slanderous Tongues: Essays on Welsh Poetry in English 1970–2005 (contributor) (Seren, 2008)
Mapping the Territory: Critical Approaches to Welsh Fiction in English (contributor) (Parthian, 2010)
Placing Poetry (contributor) (Rodopi, 2012): in production
Poetry & Geography: Space and Place in Post-War Poetry (contributor) (Liverpool University Press, 2013): in production

 

Welsh Environments in Contemporary Poetry (University of Wales Press, 2008)

This book analyses how contemporary Welsh poetry, in both Welsh and English, constructs Wales as both human and physical space, within the context of ’ecocriticism’, a literary critical practice that emerges out of environmentalist concern. It is one of the most recent interdisciplinary fields to have emerged in literary and cultural studies.

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Email: m.jarvis@lamp.ac.uk
Website: http://www.matthew-jarvis.co.uk/