Books QUICKSILVER (Lapwing, 2022) My sixth collection of poems was published with Lapwing, a small poetry press based in Belfast which has been publishing both local and international poets for over twenty years. Most of the poems in Quicksilver are short lyrics, many written in fixed forms; but the book also contains 'Anima&
Books The Craft of Poetry “How does poetry work? What should readers notice and look out for? Poet Lucy Newlyn demystifies the principles of the form, effortlessly illustrating key approaches and terms—all through her own original verse.”
Books The Marriage Hearse "A truly heartbreaking collection with a narrative that will take the reader from cover to cover again and again. A collection to be savoured."
Books Vital Stream A work of historical fiction, an experiment in life writing and a verse drama designed to be read aloud. ‘Vital Stream’ takes the form of a long sonnet sequence, revisiting six extraordinary months in 1802 - a threshold year for William and Dorothy Wordsworth.
Books Collections of poetry published by Ludo Press Poems on various themes, published while living in Oxford and Cornwall
Books Edward Thomas, Prose Writings An ongoing OUP edition of Edward Thomas's prose writings; General Co-editors Guy Cuthbertson and Lucy Newlyn
Books William and Dorothy Wordsworth: All In Each Other The story of a brother and sister walking, talking, remembering, grieving and writing together...
Books Earth's Almanac The poems in Newlyn’s book emerged over a fifteen-year period following the untimely death of the poet’s sister. She adapts the form of the ‘Shepherd’s Calendar’ to the phases of grief, condensing a long process of reflection and remembering into the passage of a single year.
Bipolar Diary of a Bipolar Explorer In her fifteen-year diary, Lucy Newlyn discloses recurring episodes of mania, depression, hallucination and paranoid delusion.
Books Reading, Writing, and Romanticism: The Anxiety of Reception Thus book examines how readers are imagined, addressed, figured and theorized in Romantic poetry and criticism (1790-1830).
Books Branch-Lines: Edward Thomas and Contemporary Poetry An anthology of contemporary poems and critical reflections on Edward Thomas, edited by Guy Cuthbertson and Lucy Newlyn
Books Edward Thomas, Oxford Edward Thomas's book on Oxford, edited with an introduction and notes by Lucy Newlyn
Books Joker in the Pack An anthology inspired by Bob Dylan's winning of the Nobel Prize for Literature, featuring poetry by members of the Hall Writers’ Forum. Edited by Lucy Newlyn with a Foreword by Neil Corcoran.
Cornwall Chatter of Choughs An anthology of poetry and prose celebrating the return of the Cornish Chough to Cornwall; edited by Lucy Newlyn.
Books May their shadows never shrink: Wole Soyinka and the Oxford Professorship of Poetry ‘May their shadows never shrink’ is a book about the campaign to elect Wole Soyinka as Professor of Poetry at Oxford.
Books Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal The Grasmere Journal, with an introduction by Lucy Newlyn
Books Ginnel This closely unified sequence of poems is set in and around the ginnels of Leeds, where Lucy Newlyn grew up in the 1960s. Exploring the hinterlands of middle-class Headingley and working-class Meanwood, the sequence is pervaded by a sense of restlessness, of wandering between two worlds and times.
Books Paradise Lost and the Romantic Reader Lucy Newlyn shows how the Romantic reader responds, in complex and often paradoxical ways, to multiple ambiguities inherent in the language of Paradise Lost.
Books Coleridge, Wordsworth, and the Language of Allusion In this study of two creative minds, Lucy Newlyn offers a new version of the Coleridge-Wordsworth interaction during its most crucial years: 1797-1807.
Books Coleridge's Imagination A collection of scholarly essays on Coleridge, edited by Richard Gravil,Lucy Newlyn and Nicholas Roe; published by Cambridge University Press.
Books Synergies: Creative Writing in Academic Practice Published in two volumes, 'Sea Sonnets' and 'Breaking Moulds', these are partly anthologies of student writing, partly reflections on teaching practice. Edited with Fellow poet Jenny Lewis, they evolved out of a workshop experiment at St Edmund Hall.
Books The Cambridge Companion to Coleridge A collection of essays on Coleridge's work and influence, edited by Lucy Newlyn.