Professor Jean Sprackland

Jean Sprackland

Professor Jean Sprackland

Professor of Creative Writing

My profile

Biography

I am Professor of Creative Writing here at Manchester Met.

I have published five collections of poetry, most recently Green Noise, published in 2018. My previous collection Tilt won the Costa Poetry Award in 2008, and my books have also been shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize and the Forward Prize. I am also the author of two books of non-fiction: These Silent Mansions, published in 2020, and Strands: A Year of Discoveries on the Beach, which won the Portico Prize for Non-Fiction in 2012.

My research interests are in creative writing: principally poetry, and non-fiction writing about place and landscape. 

Personal website address

http://jeansprackland.com/

Get in touch

0161 247 1722
2.04 Bellhouse

Impact

Men Who Sleep in Cars (2017)

Engaging New Audiences with Public Poetry

A research project by Manchester Met poets to bring poetry to new audiences through broadcast, performance, and commemoration.

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Teaching

Supervision

Rachel Mann: The Representation of Fecundity and Barrenness in Nineteenth Century Women’s Poetry: a critical and creative scrutiny of a Christian-Feminist Poetics (completed).

Natalie Burdett: Metaphor in the Midlands: Theorising Poetry and Prose, Place and Politics

Rachel Davies: A tight grasp on to the apron strings: the parent in a poet’s work

Sarah Jasmon: Lost and Found: Mapping the Canals of Manchester

Zaffar Kunial: Poetry as Wavering

Jennie Bailey: For Rochdale: Reading, Mapping, and Writing Place in the Era of the Northern Powerhouse

Research outputs

  • Books (authored/edited/special issues)

    Anphimiadi, D. (2021) Why I No Longer Write Poems.

    Sprackland, J. (2020) These Silent Mansions: A life in graveyards. Jonathan Cape.

    Sprackland, J. (2018) Green Noise. Jonathan Cape.

    Sprackland, J. (2015) New Manchester Alphabet An Illustrated Collection of New Poetry 2015. Manchester Metropolitan University.

    Eliasson, G., Grytten, F., Conghaile, M.O., Picard, D., Saclioglu, M.Z., Schulze, I., Simic, R., Sprackland, J., Tokarczuk, O., Unge, M. (2013) Elsewhere. Comma Press.

    O'Brien, S., Sprackland, J., Cooke, T. (2013) Ellipsis 1. Comma Press.

    Sprackland, J. (2013) Sleeping Keys. Random House.

    Sprackland, J. (2013) Strands. Random House.

    Sprackland, J. (2007) Tilt. Random House UK.

    Coe, M., Sprackland, J. (2005) Our Thoughts Are Bees. Wordplay Press.

    Sprackland, J., Sprackland, (2003) Hard water. Jonathan Cape.

    Sprackland, J. (1997) Tattoos for Mother's Day.

  • Chapters in books

    SPRACKLAND, J. (2021) 'In the Castle.' Hollow Palaces. Liverpool University Press, pp. 69-69.

    Sprackland, J. (2021) 'Purification.' Divining Dante. Recent Work Press,

    Sprackland, J. (2021) 'In Praise of Emptiness.' WHY I WRITE POETRY.. Nine Arches Press,

    Sprackland, J. (2020) 'Sands Immense: on the trail of Herman Melville.' Sandscapes: Writing the British seaside. Palgrave,

    Sprackland, J. (2020) 'Sands Immense: A Fool’s Errand.' In Carruthers, J., Dakkar, N. (ed.) Sandscapes: Writing the British Seaside. Palgrave MacMillan, pp. 179-189.

  • Journal articles

    Busck-Nielsen, H., Sprackland, J. (2019) 'Poetry.' Critical Survey, 31(1-2) pp. 196-198.

    Sprackland, J. (2014) 'Those Winter Sundays.' Writing in Education, 63

    Sprackland, J. (2013) 'Moving The Piano/It Occurs To My Mother That She Might Be Dead.' Poem, 1(3) pp. 54-55.

    Buttress, D., Sprackland, J., Bennett, C.S. (2001) 'Poetry.' Critical Survey, 13(3)

  • Other

    Sprackland, J. Hands.

    Sprackland, J. (2016) Lock Songs.

    Sprackland, J. (2015) Three poems.

    Sprackland, J. (2015) Two poems.

    Sprackland, J. (2011) In the Mud.