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Biography
Dr Steve Ely is Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing and Director of the Ted Hughes Network. He is an award-winning poet, novelist, and biographer. His most recent publications are Lectio Violant and The European Eel (both 2021). He joined the University in September 2015 after a twenty-year career in secondary education as a teacher, senior leader and Headteacher. He has also worked as a freelance writer and educational consultant. He teaches on a range of undergraduate creative writing modules and on the Life Writing MA. He is currently supervising a number of Masters by Research/PhD students working on creative writing projects (poetry and prose), and projects relating to the work of Ted Hughes. He would welcome further proposals from prospective students in these areas. Steve is a founding member of the Ted Hughes Project (South Yorkshire) a community-based organisation which seeks to develop the legacy of Ted Hughes in and around Hughes’s childhood home of Mexborough and which runs the annual Ted Hughes Poetry Festival. He also formed the consortium that developed the Discovering Ted Hughes’s Yorkshire literary trails https://discoveringtedhughesyorkshire.co.uk/. He is currently working on a symphonic, book-length poem, Eely, which explores the Apocalypse of the Anthropocene through the triple foci of autobiography, the European eel and the fenlands of eastern England. He is also researching a monograph placing Ted Hughes’s writing in the context of World and European movements in art that will characterise his dominant mode as Expressionist.
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Lectio Violant
Ely, S., 1 May 2021, Swindon: Shearsman Books. 90 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book
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Poem: Jörmungandr
Ely, S., 6 May 2021, London Review of Books, 43, 9, p. 32 1 p.Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article
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The European Eel
Ely, S., 12 Jul 2021, Sheffield: Longbarrow Press. 80 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book
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A Prologue to Capriccio
Ely, S., 1 Jul 2020, In: The Ted Hughes Society Journal. 8, 2, p. 12-30 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Four Poems from 'Lectio Violant'
Ely, S., 30 Jan 2020Research output: Non-textual form › Web publication/site
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Rare handwritten volume of Ted Hughes poems bought by Huddersfield University for almost £12,000
25/05/18
1 item of Media coverage
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How £12,000 purchase has helped academics in Huddersfield assemble world’s most extensive Ted Hughes collection
8/05/18
1 Media contribution
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