Harriet Truscott

Harriet Truscott

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Academic Background

Harriet Truscott is a poet, translator and arts organiser, now studying for a PhD at UEA. Her research and writing is funded by a CHASE AHRC Studentship. 

The critical aspect of her PhD centres around the most distinctive, but under-discussed, element of poetry: the white space of the page in which the text sits. Harriet's research considers how poets from Mallarme onwards have used the empty space of the page, with particular attention to Hope Mirrlees, Ian Hamilton Finlay and Gail McConnell.

Her own creative writing, informed by her critical work, tells and retells a single story, repeatedly embodying it through multiple media - whether hand-printing, shifting digital versions, or as an artist's book.

Recent publications include poems in Oxford Poetry, Modern Poetry in Translation and The Dark Horse

Harriet has lived in the north-west of Spain, in a city of storytelling and contested language, and is a translator or 20th century Spanish poetry. 

Harriet worked for many years in public engagement and research communications at the University of Cambridge, and loves to hear people talk about their research and writing.

Please do get in touch to talk about research, writing, poetry, printing, translation or anything else. 

Keywords

  • Creative Writing
  • Poetry
  • English literature
  • Literary Criticism
  • 20th century poetry
  • Modern European Languages and literatures
  • Spanish
  • Translation
  • Visual arts
  • Book arts