Lochie Springett

Thesis title: Life Work: Serial Form, Lateness, and the Long Poem

Supervisor: Hannah Sullivan

Most of my research centres around questions of literary form and its relation to ageing. In particular, I'm interested in poets who tether the length of their works to the span of their lives. Some writers of particular interest are Walt Whitman, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Robert Lowell, Anne Carson, and Nathaniel Mackey.

Relatedly, I also research the poetry of Mackey's sometime collaborator, Edward Kamau Brathwaite. To this end, I am currently working on an article that investigates Brathwaite's lifelong tendency to revisit the poems that he wrote as an undergraduate at Cambridge in the early 1950s.

Alongside my work on poetry and poetics, I maintain a broader interest in all things longform, from Dorothy Richardson’s novel sequence Pilgrimage (1915–1967) to the peculiarly distended nature of epistolary relationships.  

Research interests: Book history, genetic criticism, 'late style', life writing, modernism, poetics, senescence and ageing, serial forms.