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Research
My work is in theoretical and applied poetry and poetics, often interacting with deep ecological and cultural materialist perspectives. I have strong comparative research interests in global literatures, global feminisms, music, and the plastic and performing arts. I am particularly interested in poetry’s (im)material status as a textual and verbal art form; creative and critical work in literature and the wider arts which sits at the intersection of forms, genres, media, languages, and disciplines; literature which works in productive dialogue with the natural sciences; and, across all of these interests, precarious and transitive states of existence.
Published work includes: 2 edited collections on Art Walking; a monograph Spatial Engagement with Poetry; a journal special issue 'Thinking the Global with Literature'; a monograph On Literary Plasticity.
Current research concerns: a monograph tentatively entitled 'Modern Stone'; a collaborative interrogation of the poetics, politics, and philosophical mobilizations of the figure of caesura; a rewriting of the difficult history of the sonnet; a poetic-pedagogical work tentatively entitled 'Metapoetics'; various translations.
I do not publish poetry by conventional means, nor is the circulation of my artist books fully mappable. This renegade interaction with publication indices (particularly the critical interrogation of international book standardization and cataloguing mechanisms, and the close attention to the histories and natures of ephemeral and the precarious poetic matter) is an ethics, an activisim, and an integral part of my practice as a poet and thinker. My solo and collaborative work as a poet-thinker has been exhibited and performed nationally and internationally. A permanent archive of my poetic output is held in the Scottish Poetry Library, Edinburgh, with holdings also at the National Library of Scotland. Elements of the SPL archive have been brilliantly digitised by Dr. Eleanore Widger, but as much of the work is sequential, and stems from an interest in material, vocalic, and textual form(s) and their effects on our reading, memorized, lives, it is also worth a visit. Links through to the digitization project can be found via my SPL poet’s page (link above).
Teaching
My teaching is predominantly in poetry and poetics, intersecting with environmental/ecological thought, forms of literary materialism, and theory.
I am happy to consider graduate (research masters, PhD, postdoctoral) supervision in poetry and poetics and literary (im)materialisms, in areas that overlap with my research interests. Do be in touch to discuss.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Education/Academic qualification
Doctor of Philosophy, Durham University
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Ways of Reading Innovative and Concrete Poetry: Archiving, Cataloguing, Digitizing, Exhibiting, Recording
Roberts, A. (Investigator) & Yeung, H. (Investigator)
1/11/18 → 1/07/19
Project: Research
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The Poetology of the (Modern) Apocalypse (6 Month Research Fellowship)
Yeung, H. (Investigator)
1/09/24 → 28/02/25
Project: Research
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InGAME - Innovation for Games and Media Enterprise (Joint with Abertay University and St Andrews University)
Ballie, J. (Investigator), Beech, N. (Investigator), Harris, P. (Investigator), Head, A. (Investigator), Linsley, J. (Investigator), Livesey, J. (Investigator), Murray, C. (Investigator), Rowan, J. (Investigator), Sellbach, U. (Investigator), Smith, D. (Investigator), Taylor, A. (Investigator), Valentine, L. (Investigator), Vaughan, P. (Investigator), Ward, M. (Investigator) & Yeung, H. (Investigator)
1/10/18 → 31/03/24
Project: Research
Research output
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Interview with Heather H. Yeung: Entlassen. Thinking with Poetry
Ruda, F., Hamza, A. & Yeung, H. (Subject), 31 Aug 2022, In: Crisis and Critique. 9, 1, p. 437-452 16 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Stations: On Eric Gill and the Poetics of Stone
Yeung, H., 2022, In: The Hopkins Review. 15, 2Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Performing Venice's stones: vedute manoeuvre redux
Yeung, H., 15 Dec 2022, In: Arts. 11, 6, 18 p., 127.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Toeing and Breaking the Line: On Enjambment and Caesura
Yeung, H. (Lead / Corresponding author), 29 Dec 2022, An Introduction to Poetic Form. Gill, P. (ed.). 1 ed. New York: Routledge, p. 38-50 13 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
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On Literary Plasticity: Readings with Kafka in Ecology, Voice, and Object-Life
Yeung, H., Jun 2020, 1 ed. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.Research output: Book/Report › Book
Activities
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Eco-Poetics, at Red Bean Poetry Festival
Yeung, H. (Speaker)
27 Jun 2024Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Festival/Exhibition
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Queer Form in Scottish Writing
Yeung, H. (Speaker)
10 Jul 2024Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
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Nature Poetry in the Museum
Yeung, H. (Organiser) & Jarron, M. (Organiser)
9 Mar 2023Activity: Other activity types › Public engagement and outreach - public lecture/debate/seminar
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'Thread Writing' A Creative Writing Workshop by Heather H. Yeung with Survivor Arts Community for Karma Nirvana
Yeung, H. (Organiser)
2023Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
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Book Week Scotland and Survivor Arts Community Workshop: 'Words in the Wild': writing adventure with Heather H. Yeung
Yeung, H. (Organiser)
15 Nov 2023Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Press/Media
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Discussion of 'Fable' by Heather H. Yeung at Open Book Unbound, episode 55
3/07/23
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Other
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Drawing Meaning From the Spaces, In conversation with Raymond Antrobus, Edinburgh International Book Festival
19/08/22
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Other
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Stories of Exile: In Conversation with Vesna Goldsworthy & Kim Thúy, Edinburgh International Book Festival
14/08/22
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Other
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Conversation with Heather H. Yeung, Taiwan Film Festival panel *Le Moulin* screening
3/06/22
1 Media contribution
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Not Holding Our Tongues (Interview and poetry reading with Heather H. Yeung at Take On Action Film Festival)
22/09/21
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Other