University College Plymouth St Mark & St John


Paul Bentley
Job Title:
Senior Lecturer in Media & Creative Arts
Faculty/Department:
Faculty of Sport, Media and Creative Arts
Contact Number:
01752 636700 Ext: 3101
Email:
pbentley@marjon.ac.uk
BA(Hons); MA; PhD
Research Background:

Modern Poetry; Literary Theory
Research Interests:

Modern poetry: I'm especially interested in developments and movements in British and Irish poetry since the Second World War, and have written on poets such as Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, Peter Redgrove and Paul Muldoon.  I'm also interested in Romantic poetry, and have written on responses to Keats in his time as a 'Cockney' poet, as well as on the role of superstition in Wordsworth and Coleridge's Lyrical Ballads.  I'm currently working on a book Ted Hughes for Continuum: Ted Hughes, Class & Violence.  I also enjoy writing poetry: my pamphlet Largo, a first stage winner of the Poetry Business Book & Pamphlet Competition, was published June 2011.

 
Teaching Areas:

Modern poetry; Romanticism; nineteenth-century literature; creative writing – poetry.
Publications:

Academic books and contributions to books: The Poetry of Ted Hughes: Language, Illusion and Beyond. (Longman 1998);
Scientist of the Strange: The Poetry of Peter Redgrove (Fairleigh Dickinson 2002); 'The Debates about Hughes', in The Cambridge Companion to Ted Hughes (Cambridge University Press 2011); Ted Hughes, Class, & Violence (forthcoming - Continuum, 2014). Poetry: Largo (Smith/Doorstop 2011).
Other Interests:

I'm also interested in the interfaces between popular music and poetry, and in forms of creative sports writing.

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