Underwood, Jack. 2015. Mirror-Witihin-Mirror. The Poetry Review, 105(1),
Underwood, J W. 2015. Poets Reading: Jack Underwood on Jennifer L Knox. The Poetry Review, 105(2), ISSN 0032-2156
Dr Jack Underwood
Staff details
Jack is a poet, writer and critic, interested in the lyric, poetics, and new terminologies of writing practice.
Jack is a poet, writer and critic and is senior lecturer in creative writing. He is programme coordinator and admissions tutor for the BA Hons English with Creative Writing degree, and also tutors on the MA in Creative and Life Writing and supervises MPhil/PhD research projects.
Jack is also founder and editor of the Goldsmiths Shorts pamphlet series
Academic qualifications
- PhD, 'Sense and Inaudibility/ Wakefield and Other Poems', Goldsmiths College, University of London, 2011 2011
- MA in Creative and Life Writing, Goldsmiths College, University of London 2006
- BA (Hons) in Creative and Cultural Studies, Norwich University of the Arts 2005
Research interests
Jack is primarily a poet, but has also published works of short fiction, flash fiction, essays and non-fiction, as well as literary criticism.
He is interested in poetics, and the development of new terminologies for writing practices, and his non-fiction work often explores analogies between poetry and other fields, such as physics, neuroscience and philosophy.
Featured publications
2021:
A Year in the New Life
Poetry
2017:
Not Even This: Poetry, Parenthood & Living Uncertainly
Creative non-fiction/Memoir
2015:
Happiness
Poetry
Publications and research outputs
Book
Underwood, J W. 2018. Solo for Mascha Voice/Tenuous Rooms. London: Test Centre. ISBN 9780993569371
Underwood, Jack. 2015. Happiness. London: Faber & Faber. ISBN 9780571313617
Underwood, Jack. 2009. Faber New Poets 4. London: Faber. ISBN 9780571249985
Book Section
Underwood, Jack. 2009. One of the poets in - Voice Recognition: 21 Poets for the 21st Century. In: James Byrne and Clare Pollard, eds. Voice Recognition: 21 Poets for the 21st Century. Bloodaxe Books Ltd. ISBN 978-1852248383
Article
Underwood, J W. 2017. On Poetry and uncertain Subjects. The Poetry Review(107:4), ISSN 2514-4456
Underwood, Jack. 2015. 'Toast to My Friend or Why Friendship Is the Best Kind of Love'. Prac Crit(5),
Underwood, Jack. 2015. I Guess You Had To Be There. Five Dials, 37,
Other
Underwood, J W. 2020. I am become a man [Poem]. 'The Believer', Beverly Rogers, Carol C. Harter Black Mountain Institute, University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
Underwood, Jack. 2020. Poem Beginning with Lines by Elizabeth Barret Browning [Poem]. 'Poetry', The Poetry Foundation, Chicago, USA.
Underwood, Jack. 2020. Alpha Step. 'Poetry', The Poetry Foundation, Chicago, USA.
Thesis
Underwood, Jack. 2010. Wakefield and Other Poems / Sense and Inaudibility. Doctoral thesis, Goldsmiths, University of London
