Maria Johnston

Come to Dublin!

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What These Ithakas Mean: Cavafy, Translation, Influence, and Imitation A.E. Stallings is an American poet who studied Classics at the University of Georgia and Oxford. She has published four collections of poetry, Archaic Smile, Hapax, and Olives, and most recently, Like...

While I’m at it…Brilliant lecture here by @oxford Prof of Poetry A.E. Stallings - a ‘splendid journey’ in its own right podcasts.ox.ac.uk/what-these-i...

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A recording will be made available!

13.03.2025 18:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Looking forward to this. Muldoon’s lectures are the perfect antidote to this age of narrow thinking.

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Leah Phillips. Female Heroes in Young Adult Fantasy Fiction (Bloomsbury Academic, 2023). Julie Pfeiffer. Transforming Girls: The Work of Nineteenth-Century Adolescence (UP of Mississippi, 2021) Cristina Santos. Untaming Girlhoods: Storytelling Female Adolescence (Routledge, 2023) Kristine Moruzi, Michelle J. Smith, eds. Young Adult Gothic Fiction: Monstrous Selves/Monstrous Others (U. of Wales P., 2021) Derrit Mason. Queer anxieties of Young Adult Literature and Culture (UP of Mississippi, 2021) Sarah Mygind. Young Adult Literature: Transmedia Transformations (Cambridge Elements, 2023)

Dear Romance and YA scholars, I'm keen to find reviewers for the following scholarly books for our Special Issue on YA Literature. If you're interested, email me at bookreviews@jprstudies.org. For more info on reviews, see here: www.jprstudies.org/submissions/...

28.01.2025 12:11 — 👍 2    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 1

Wonderful news!

03.12.2024 11:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Cyphers magazine cover

New issue of Cyphers poetry magazine (no 98) has just landed in which I review poet Susannah Dickey’s ISDAL. Might be time to take a break from reviewing for a while as this one nearly broke me.

03.12.2024 11:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Great to finally hold in hand this impressive @livunipress.bsky.social volume of essays on Derek Mahon, ed. by @tcddublin.bsky.social Nicky Grene & Tom Walker, to which I contribute a essay on Mahon’s Music 🎶 And it’s dedicated to the memory of the much-missed Gerry Dawe. Now to get stuck in…

29.11.2024 10:37 — 👍 2    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Here now. Where are all the poetry people?

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