Unstuck
‘'Unstuck' by Ceri Morgan is a striking, intimate poetry chapbook published by Dithering Chaps press, travelling restlessly across cities, languages and memories.
With beautiful lyricism and unflinching honesty, it traces journeys, desire, illness and grief, finding moments of wit, tenderness and hard-won grit along the way.
The chapbook is structured around collage place-poems, interspersed with lyric and performance poetry.
Key themes are: travel, mobilities and immobilities, interrelations between the human and other-than-human, gender and the body, ability/disability/chronic illness, and translation.
As a literary critic, poet, and creative non-fiction writer, Ceri’s style is lyrical, semi-experimental, and intertextual. With this chapbook, Ceri hopes to contribute to current trends in poetry and place-writing. Whilst her poems have Québec influences, they are inevitably also shaped by reading of contemporary poets writing in English and/or with English as a parallel language, such as Polly Atkin, Kim Moore, Elizabeth-Jane Burnett, Jennifer Wong, Oz Hardwick, Liz Berry, Natalie Burdett, Tamar Yoseloff, Carrie Etter, and others.
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Ceri Morgan
A québéciste (Québec Studies scholar) by training, Ceri’s work is informed by feminist theory and practice in Québec, which draws on feminism from France and North America in thinking about challenges to dominant language and the politics of the body.
Ceri Morgan is Professor of Place-writing and Geohumanities at Keele University. She writes poetry, creative nonfiction, criticism, and critical-creative texts. She collaborates with other artists on intermedial and multimodal work. Ceri uses writing and other creative practices to make new place-art with individuals and communities outside universities. She has published poems and creative nonfiction in Hinterland, The Mackinaw, New Welsh Reader, annie journal, Forge Zine, Nightingale and Sparrow, and Geohumanities.
Her writing is also shaped by spatial theories and practices, including urban studies, rural geographies, psychogeography, geopoetics, environmental storytelling, and nature writing. Fluently bilingual (English/French), and patchily trilingual (Welsh), she tends to write collage poems so as to disrupt (playfully, often joyfully) the dominance of English, and draw attention to the fact that most people in the world speak more than one language.