- A Story Underwood, Jack. 2020. A Story. Poetry Foundation Blog,
- On Poetry and uncertain Subjects Underwood, J W. 2017. On Poetry and uncertain Subjects. The Poetry Review(107:4), ISSN 2514-4456
- 'Toast to My Friend or Why Friendship Is the Best Kind of Love' Underwood, Jack. 2015. 'Toast to My Friend or Why Friendship Is the Best Kind of Love'. Prac Crit(5),
- I Guess You Had To Be There Underwood, Jack. 2015. I Guess You Had To Be There. Five Dials, 37,
- Mirror-Witihin-Mirror Underwood, Jack. 2015. Mirror-Witihin-Mirror. The Poetry Review, 105(1),
- Poets Reading: Jack Underwood on Jennifer L Knox 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
- Thirteen Morissettes Bush, Courtney and Underwood, Jack. 2024. Thirteen Morissettes. Glasgow: SPAM Press. ISBN 9781915049230
- A Year in the New Life Underwood, Jack. 2021. A Year in the New Life. London: Faber & Faber. ISBN 9780571367252
- NOT EVEN THIS: Parenthood, Poetry & Living Uncertainly Underwood, Jack. 2021. NOT EVEN THIS: Parenthood, Poetry & Living Uncertainly. London: Corsair. ISBN 9781472156082
Book Section
- One of the poets in - Voice Recognition: 21 Poets for the 21st Century 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
- A Room, a Predicament Underwood, Jack. 2021. A Room, a Predicament. INQUE, 2, ISSN 2754-7787
- A Song About Singularities Underwood, Jack. 2021. A Song About Singularities. Granta (online edition),
- Long Live Patience Underwood, Jack. 2021. Long Live Patience. PORT(27), pp. 172-174. ISSN 2046-052X
Other
- Song of My Having [Poem] Underwood, Jack. 2024. Song of My Having [Poem]. The Nation.
- Song of the Disgraced Person [Poem] Underwood, Jack. 2024. Song of the Disgraced Person [Poem]. New York Review of Books.
- Song of New Friendship [Poem] Underwood, Jack. 2024. Song of New Friendship [Poem]. The Poetry Review, London.
Audio
- Faber Poetry Podcast: Season 3: Episode 4: Lucy Mercer & Maggie Millner Underwood, Jack; Allen, Rachael and Marshall, Hannah. 2023. Faber Poetry Podcast: Season 3: Episode 4: Lucy Mercer & Maggie Millner.
- Faber Poetry Podcast: Season 3: Episode 3: Raymond Antrobus & Victoria Adukwei Bulley Underwood, Jack; Allen, Rachael and Marshall, Hannah. 2023. Faber Poetry Podcast: Season 3: Episode 3: Raymond Antrobus & Victoria Adukwei Bulley.
- Faber Poetry Podcast: Season 3: Episode 2: Camille Ralphs & Stephanie Sy-Quia Underwood, Jack; Allen, Rachael and Marshall, Hannah. 2023. Faber Poetry Podcast: Season 3: Episode 2: Camille Ralphs & Stephanie Sy-Quia.
Thesis
- Wakefield and Other Poems / Sense and Inaudibility Underwood, Jack. 2010. Wakefield and Other Poems / Sense and Inaudibility. Doctoral thesis, Goldsmiths, University of London
