Dr Andrea Brady, BA (Columbia) PhD (Cambridge)
Senior Lecturer
Tel: +44 (0)20 7882 2855
email: a.brady@qmul.ac.uk
Research interests:
Andrea Brady is an early modernist, whose research interests include poetry, ritual, embodiment, dreams, theories of the imagination and the material conditions of writing, in seventeenth century and twenty-first century England. Her book English Funerary Elegy in the Seventeenth Century was published by Palgrave Macmillan in June 2006. Andrea is a member of the board of the journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry. She is currently supervising a doctoral project on Writers' Forum and experimental British poetry since the 1960s, in collaboration with the Sound Archive at the British Library. She is a published poet, and has published widely on contemporary innovative poetry.
Andrea is Director of the ‘Archive of the Now’ http://www.archiveofthenow.org/, an online repository of contemporary poetry which includes recordings by over 100 poets reading their own work. With Keston Sutherland, Andrea started the small press Barque (http://www.barquepress.com/) in 1995. Barque has since published 61 books by 35 poets, 4 CDs, a DVD, and the little magazine Quid.
Publications:
Books
English Funerary Elegy in the Seventeenth Century: Laws in Mourning. Early Modern Literature in History Series, ser. ed. Cedric Brown and Andrew Hadfield (Basingstoke; Palgrave Macmillan, June 2006, ISBN 140394105X). Academic monograph.
The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe. Ed. Andrea Brady and Emily Butterworth. London and New York: Routledge, 2009. ISBN 978-0-415-99540-5. Edited collection.
The Rushes (Hastings: Reality Street, 2012).
Wildfire: A Verse Essay. San Francisco: Krupskaya, January 2010. ISBN 978-1-928-65031-7. Originally published as a hypertext poem by dispatx.com
Embrace (Glasgow: Object Permanence, 2005, 57 pp). Collection of poetry.
Vacation of a Lifetime (Cambridge: Salt, 2001, 130 pp). Collection of poetry.
Articles and Book Chapters: Early Modern Literature
‘The Platonic Poetry of Katherine Philips’, The Seventeenth Century (forthcoming 2010).
“‘Without welt, gard, or embroidery”: A Funeral Elegy for Cicely Ridgeway, Countess of Londonderry (1628)’, Huntington Library Quarterly (Sept. 2009): 373-395.
‘“These Dear Relicks”: Abiding Grief in Reformation England’ in The Reformation Unsettled: Pre-Reformation Religious Culture in Early Modern British Literature, 1560-1660, ed. J.-F. van Dijkhuizen, Proteus: Studies in Early Modern Identity Formation, ser. ed. Reindert Falkenburg, Klaus Krüger, Mark Meadow and Karl Enenkel (Leiden: Brepols 2009).
“Dying with Honour: Literary propaganda and the second English Civil War’, Journal of Military History 70.1 (Jan. 2006): 9-30. Winner of the Moncado Prize.
‘The Gift of Mourning: Death in the Early Modern Household’ in The Emotional Household in Europe, 1400-1800, ed. Susan Broomhall (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).
Articles and Book Chapters: Contemporary Literature
‘Making Use of the Pain: the John Wieners Archives’, Paideuma 36.1 (July 2010)
'Distraction and Absorption on Second Avenue', in Frank O'Hara Now: New Essays on the New York Poet. Eds. Will Montgomery and Robert Hampson. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press (2010).
‘Letter to Bob Archambeau’, Cambridge Literary Review 2 (January 2010): 244-249
Contribution to round-table discussion at launch of Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry (Birkbeck, October 2009): http://www.scribd.com/doc/22924473/Journal-of-British-and-Irish-Innovative-Poetry-Birkbeck-Launch-Event-2009-Selected-Papers
'Shadowy Figures in QUILL, SOLITARY APPARITION', Chicago Review 53.4 and 54.1/2 (2008): 120-125.
'Post-Marginal Positions: Women and the UK Experimental/Avant-Garde Poetry Community. A Cross-Atlantic Forum.' Ed. Catherine Wagner. Jacket 34 (October 2007).
‘On Poetry and Public Pleasure: a reading of Tom Raworth’, in Poetry and Public Language, ed. Tony Lopez (Exeter: Shearsman, 2007)
‘The Other Poet: John Wieners, Frank O’Hara, and Charles Olson’ in Don’t Ever Get Famous: Essays on New York Writing after the New York School, ed. Daniel Kane (Illinois State University: Dalkey Archive Press, Dec. 2006, ISBN 1-56478-460-6).
‘Zero Longitude: Notes on Kevin Nolan’s Elegiac Centres’, The Paper 5 (Oct. 2002): 27-35; reprinted in Occasions of Poetry: Elegy, Walking, Spirituality, ed. David Kennedy (Exeter: Shearsman, 2007, ISBN 1-905700-63-6).
‘No Turning Back: Acrylic Tips’, Quid 17: for J. H. Prynne, in Celebration (24 June 2006): 80-83.
‘For Immediate Delivery: on the semiotics of blogs’ in Put About: a critical anthology on independent publishing, ed. Maria Fusco and Ian Hunt (London: Book Works, 2004).
Entries for all contemporary American and British poets, The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English, gen. ed. Dominic Head (Cambridge UP, 2004).
‘Grief Work in a War Economy’, Radical Philosophy 114 (July/Aug. 2002): 7-12.
Reviews
Review of Sarah Covington, Wounds, Flesh, and Metaphor in 17th Century England (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009) for Renaissance Quarterly (Summer 2010)
Review of Peter Sherlock, Monuments and Memory in Early Modern England (Ashgate, 2008, 296 pp.) for H-Albion (2009).
Review of Poetry magazine, Times Literary Supplement, March 2005.
‘The Same War Continues: Denise Levertov, New Selected Poems’, Poetry Review 94.2 (2004): 76-8.
‘Object Lessons: George Oppen, New Collected Poems’, Poetry Review 94.1 (Spring 2004): 64-70.
‘Walking and Standing Still in Suffolk: R. F. Langley, More or Less’, Poetry Review 93.1 (2003): 67-73.
‘Out of This World: Peter Robinson, Poetry, Poets, Readers: Making Things Happen’, Poetry Review 92.4 (Winter 2002): 96-99.
‘The Middle Distance: Lorine Niedecker, Collected Poems’, Poetry Review 92.3 (Autumn 2002): 87-91.
Review of Left Under a Cloud by Stephen Rodefer, Jacket 15 (http://jacketmagazine.com/15/brady-rodefer.html); ‘Brief Notes on Reverses by John Wilkinson’, Jacket 9 (http://jacketmagazine.com/09/brady-r-wilk.html).
Poetry
Magazines and Journals
Poems published in Arras, the baffler 15, big allis 8, Boxon; Capilano Review; CCCP 9 Poetry Archive, Chicago Review 47.3 (Fall 2001), Dusie 6 (October 2007), The East Village Poetry Web 5 (1999), How2 1.8 (Fall 2002); Jacket 3, 9; Mute 2.6 (August 2007); The New Review of Literature 4.1 (Oct. 2006), Notre Dame Review 28 (summer 2009), 29 (Winter 2010) and 30 (Summer 2010); Object Permanence 8 (Feb. 1997); Onedit; Parataxis 10; Poetry Review 94.3 (Autumn 2004); Quid; Ratapallax; Salt 10 (1997); Slope; Stand n.s. 1.4 (Dec. 1999); triquarterly, Verse 16.3 and 17.1; The Wolf 17 (April 2008), Litter
Anthologies and translations
Translated into Finnish for the magazine Tuli&Savu (2010).
Infinite Difference (Shearsman, 2010)
Translated into Spanish for the anthology La Isla Tuerta: 49 poetas britanicos (1946-2006) (Madrid: Lumeneditorial, 2009)
Poems with French translations published in cipM 147 (Marseille, May 2006).
Scriptwriting
Produced a script for director Barry Edwards for the performance Shiver. Live performance debuted at theatro technis, Camden, London, 11 July 2006
A film from the same text was distributed in November 2006
Interviews
Interviewed by Scott Thurston for Talking Poetics, his AHRC-funded research project focussing on four poets (to be published in 2011)
Interviewed by Andrew Duncan, The Argotist [http://www.argotistonline.co.uk/Brady%20interview.htm]
Interviewed by Rosheen Brennan, How2 [http://www.asu.edu/pipercwcenter/how2journal /vol_3_no_1/new_media/archive_ofthe_now/pdfs/bradyinterview.pdf]
Interviewed by Rob McLennan: http://robmclennan.blogspot.com/2010/06/12-or-20-questions-with-andrea-brady.html
Recent Performances: Andrea has given readings at a variety of venues in London, Cambridge, Bolton, Brighton, Dundee, St. Andrews; Berlin, Marseille, New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Buffalo NY, Boston and Vancouver. Recent highlights include:
2010 Hiding Place gallery, Philadelphia, USA (5 August)
2010 London Cross-Genre Festival, University of Greenwich (14-16 July)
2010 Memorial readings for Goran Printz-Pahlson, University of Cambridge (28 June)
2010 Sussex Poetry Festival, University of Sussex and Nightingale Theatre, Brighton (16-18 April)
2010 Queens’ College, Cambridge (29 January)
2009 Openned, The Foundry, London (1 November)
2009 Cafe Oto, London (15 May)
2009 Parasol Unit Gallery, London (30 April) 2007 Reading at Berlin Poetry Hearings
2007 Readings at the Notre Dame University, South Bend, IN; University of Chicago; Miami University of Ohio; SUNY Buffalo; Harvard; New York and Philadelphia. This reading tour was sponsored by the Chicago Review, to coincide with a special issue dedicated to Andrea’s work and three other poets.
2006 Reading at the Centre Internationale de Poésie Marseille.
2005 Reading and paper in Vancouver, Canada, sponsored by the British Council and the Kootenay School of Writing.
2005 Commissioned to write and perform a poem on the day’s news events for National Poetry Day on ‘World Update’ with Dan Damon, BBC World Service.
Essays on Andrea’s poetry
Jon Clay, Sensation, Contemporary Poetry and Deleuze: Transformative Intensities (Continuum, 2010).
Sophie Mayer, Review of Andrea Brady's Wildfire and Simon Perrill's Nitrate, Hand+Star (http://www.handandstar.co.uk/?p=825)
Richard Owens, 'Working Notes: Andrea Brady's Wildfire,' Damn the Caesars (http://damnthecaesars.blogspot.com/2010/06/working-notes-andrea-bradys-wildfire.html)
Amica Dall, 'Trying to Look Correctly at the Subjects of Andrea Brady's 'Saw Fit', Hot Gun 1 (Summer 2009): 22-28.
Nicky Marsh, ‘Going “Glocal”: The Local and the Global in Recent Experimental Women's Poetry’, Contemporary Women's Writing 1 (2007): 192-202.
Simon Perril, ‘Two Slices of Toast: Emptiness and Disappointment in Recent Works by Peter Manson and Andrea Brady’, Symbiosis 11.1 (April 2007): 75-88.
Tom Jones, ‘Andrea Brady’s Elections’, Litteraria Pragensia (December 2007): 139-147.
Josh Robinson, ‘“Abject Self on Patrol”: Immaterial Labour, Affect, and Subjectivity in Andrea Brady’s Cold Calling’, Litteraria Pragensia (December 2007): 148-157.
John Wilkinson, ‘Off the Grid’, Chicago Review 53.1 (Spring 2007): 95-115, reprinted in The Lyric Touch (Cambridge: Salt, 2007).
Marianne Morris, ‘Behind the Veil’, Review of Embrace, Jacket 29 (April 2006) [http://jacketmagazine.com/29/morris-brady.html]
Keston Sutherland, University of Sussex: ‘Vocal Stupor 2: Notes on Love Poetry’, and Jonathan Clay, Birkbeck, University of London: ‘Andrea Brady’s ‘Saw Fit’: Poetic Innovation and Politics’ (New Readings of British Contemporary Poetry, University of Dundee, 3 June 2006)
Robin Purves, ‘American Change: A Note on Andrea Brady and the Language of Consumption’, Edinburgh Review 114 (2004): 177-185.
Stuart Kelly, ‘All lines are busy’, Review of Cold Calling, Poetry Review 94.2 (Summer 2004): 95-7.
John Hall, ‘Eluded readings: trying to tell stories about reading some recent poems’, The Gig 15 (Sept. 2003).
Reviews of Vacation of a Lifetime: Publishers Weekly 23/9/02; Keith Elliot, Terrible Work [http://terriblework.co.uk/andrea_brady]
Reviews of Liberties: Nada Gordon, readme 1 [http://home.jps.net/%7Enada/issueone.htm].
Nicky Marsh, 'Going Glocal: The Local and the Global in Recent Experimental Women's Poetry', Contemporary Women's Writing 1 (2007): 192-202.