Professor Jean Sprackland
Professor of Creative Writing
My profile
Biography
I am Professor of Creative Writing here at Manchester Met.
I have published five collections of poetry, most recently Green Noise, published in 2018. My previous collection Tilt won the Costa Poetry Award in 2008, and my books have also been shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize and the Forward Prize. I am also the author of two books of non-fiction: These Silent Mansions, published in 2020, and Strands: A Year of Discoveries on the Beach, which won the Portico Prize for Non-Fiction in 2012.
My research interests are in creative writing: principally poetry, and non-fiction writing about place and landscape.
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Impact
Teaching
Supervision
Rachel Mann: The Representation of Fecundity and Barrenness in Nineteenth Century Women’s Poetry: a critical and creative scrutiny of a Christian-Feminist Poetics (completed).
Natalie Burdett: Metaphor in the Midlands: Theorising Poetry and Prose, Place and Politics
Rachel Davies: A tight grasp on to the apron strings: the parent in a poet’s work
Sarah Jasmon: Lost and Found: Mapping the Canals of Manchester
Zaffar Kunial: Poetry as Wavering
Jennie Bailey: For Rochdale: Reading, Mapping, and Writing Place in the Era of the Northern Powerhouse
Research outputs
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Books (authored/edited/special issues)
Anphimiadi, D. (2021) Why I No Longer Write Poems.
Sprackland, J. (2020) These Silent Mansions: A life in graveyards. Jonathan Cape.
Sprackland, J. (2018) Green Noise. Jonathan Cape.
Sprackland, J. (2015) New Manchester Alphabet An Illustrated Collection of New Poetry 2015. Manchester Metropolitan University.
Eliasson, G., Grytten, F., Conghaile, M.O., Picard, D., Saclioglu, M.Z., Schulze, I., Simic, R., Sprackland, J., Tokarczuk, O., Unge, M. (2013) Elsewhere. Comma Press.
O'Brien, S., Sprackland, J., Cooke, T. (2013) Ellipsis 1. Comma Press.
Sprackland, J. (2013) Sleeping Keys. Random House.
Sprackland, J. (2013) Strands. Random House.
Sprackland, J. (2007) Tilt. Random House UK.
Coe, M., Sprackland, J. (2005) Our Thoughts Are Bees. Wordplay Press.
Sprackland, J., Sprackland, (2003) Hard water. Jonathan Cape.
Sprackland, J. (1997) Tattoos for Mother's Day.
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Chapters in books
SPRACKLAND, J. (2021) 'In the Castle.' Hollow Palaces. Liverpool University Press, pp. 69-69.
Sprackland, J. (2021) 'Purification.' Divining Dante. Recent Work Press,
Sprackland, J. (2021) 'In Praise of Emptiness.' WHY I WRITE POETRY.. Nine Arches Press,
Sprackland, J. (2020) 'Sands Immense: on the trail of Herman Melville.' Sandscapes: Writing the British seaside. Palgrave,
Sprackland, J. (2020) 'Sands Immense: A Fool’s Errand.' In Carruthers, J., Dakkar, N. (ed.) Sandscapes: Writing the British Seaside. Palgrave MacMillan, pp. 179-189.
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Journal articles
Busck-Nielsen, H., Sprackland, J. (2019) 'Poetry.' Critical Survey, 31(1-2) pp. 196-198.
Sprackland, J. (2014) 'Those Winter Sundays.' Writing in Education, 63
Sprackland, J. (2013) 'Moving The Piano/It Occurs To My Mother That She Might Be Dead.' Poem, 1(3) pp. 54-55.
Buttress, D., Sprackland, J., Bennett, C.S. (2001) 'Poetry.' Critical Survey, 13(3)
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Other
Sprackland, J. Hands.
Sprackland, J. (2016) Lock Songs.
Sprackland, J. (2015) Three poems.
Sprackland, J. (2015) Two poems.
Sprackland, J. (2011) In the Mud.