Lecturer
BA, DipPhot, DipGrad, MA Creative Writing (Queen's), MA, PhD (Otago)
Email lynley.edmeades@otago.ac.nz
Research interests
Poetry and poetics, the essay, sound studies, inter-genre texts, art, interdisciplinarity, the avant-garde.
Teaching
- ENGL 120 Creative Writing: How to Captivate and Persuade
- ENGL 320 Creative Writing: Crafting Voices
- Master of Creative Writing
Honours and awards
- Longlisted, Ockham New Zealand Book Awards for Poetry, Listening In (2019)
- Finalist, Calibre Essay Prize, Australia (2019)
- Semi-finalist, Nightboat Books Poetry Prize (US), Listening In (2019)
- Longlisted, Peter Porter Poetry Prize, Australia (2019)
- Ursula Bethell Writer in Residence (2018–19)
- Massey University Artist in Residence Massey University (2018)
- Runner-up, Landfall Essay Competition (2017)
- Creative New Zealand Arts Grant (2017)
- Longlisted, Ockham New Zealand Book Awards for Poetry, As the Verb Tenses (2016)
- Shortlisted, Bridport Poetry Prize, UK (2016)
- Finalist, UNESCO Bridges of Struga Best First Book of Poetry Award, As the Verb Tenses (2016)
Publications
Edmeades, L. (2022). Supposing (un)certainty: Maggie Nelson's Bluets and the queer essay. Journal for Literary & Intermedial Crossings, 7(2), C1-C17. Journal - Research Article
Edmeades, L. (2021). Where is this now, now?: Gertrude Stein's literary innovations and new sound media. Poetics Today, 42(4), 597-621. doi: 10.1215/03335372-9356883 Journal - Research Article
Edmeades, L., & Leek, S. (2022). Bordering on miraculous. Auckland, New Zealand: Massey University Press, 95p. [Poetry]. Creative Work
Edmeades, L. (2019). Listening in. Dunedin, New Zealand: Otago University Press, 96p. [Poetry]. Creative Work
Edmeades, L. (2016). As the verb tenses. Dunedin, New Zealand: Otago University Press, 64p. [Poetry]. Creative Work