Emma Trott

Emma’s research on contemporary poetry crosses over between the environmental and the medical. Her monograph, Contemporary British Ecopoetics: Creatures, Materiality, Environment (forthcoming from Routledge) draws on the Brotherton Library Special Collections archives of Jon Silkin and Simon Armitage to identify an ecopoetics in the work of each poet, placing them within a context of a post-War Britain defined by environmental, social and cultural instability and rapid change. Her current research project focuses on metaphor in contemporary poetic and fictional representations of heart disease. She convenes the School of English’s Environmental Humanities Research Group. From her time as a postgraduate at Leeds to the present, she has been closely involved with Stand and Poetry & Audience, and with readings, workshops and symposia organised by the Poetry Centre.