Richard Marggraf Turley

Richard Marggraf Turley
Born	2 August 1970 (1970-08-02) (age 41)
Occupation	poet and literary critic

Richard Marggraf Turley (born 2 August 1970) is a British poet and literary critic, and is a professor in the Department of English and Creative Writing at Aberystwyth University.

Life

Marggraf Turley was born in the Forest of Dean and raised by foxes. He moved to Wales at the age of seven.^[1]

His first collection of poetry The Fossil Box was published by Cinnamon Press in 2007. Robert Minhinnick, editor of Poetry Wales, praised its 'rare and intense musicality'. The poems are concerned with the urgency of place and origins. He is also co-author, with Damian Walford Davies, of Whiteout (Parthian, 2006). In 2008, Marggraf Turley signed with Salt, who published a new collection entitled "Wan-Hu's Flying Chair" in March 2009 (long-listed for the Wales Book of the Year, 2010).

In 2007 Marggraf Turley won first prize in the tenth-anniversary Keats-Shelley Prize for Poetry. His poem, 'Elisions', was written on the competition theme of slavery. He has made appearances on Radio 3's poetry programme, 'The Verb', presented by Ian McMillan. He performed with Damian Walford Davies at the 2009 Guardian Hay Festival. Both are reading at the 2010 Hay Festival.

In 2010, together with Professor Reyer Zwiggelaar and Dr Bashar Rajoub of the Computer Science department at Aberystwyth University, Richard Marggraf Turley conducted a "Valentine's Day experiment" using thermal imaging cameras to determine whether reading love poetry produced distinct thermal signatures on the faces of volunteers. He was testing a Romantic theory of poetry. Over 50 million images were recorded, amounting to five terrabytes of data. The full results of the analyses will be released in Spring 2010.^{[dated info]} The event attracted attention from both the popular and scientific press in the run-up to Valentine's Day. Also in 2010, he won the Wales Book of the Year "People's Choice" award (sponsored by Media Wales) for "Wan-Hu's Flying Chair".

In addition to poetry, Richard Marggraf Turley has written a number of books on Keats and the Romantic poets, including Keats's Boyish Imagination, which was widely praised, but caused some controversy in the Times Literary Supplement. He is co-founder and Co-Director of the Centre for Romantic Studies, Aberystwyth, the first of its kind in Wales.

He lives near Aberystwyth on the Ceredigion coast.

Poetry

• 2009: Wan-Hu's Flying Chair, Salt Press, ISBN 978-1844714438*
• 2007: The Fossil-Box, Cinnamon Press, ISBN 978-1905614356 *
• 2006: Whiteout, co-authored with Damian Walford Davies, Parthian, ISBN 978-1905762156 *

Critical studies

• 2011: (ed.) The Writer in the Academy: Creative Interfrictions, Boydell and Brewer, ISBN 978-1843842781 *
• 2009: Bright Stars: Keats, Barry Cornwall and Romantic Literary Culture, Liverpool University Press, ISBN 978-1846312113 *
• 2006: The Monstrous Debt: Modalities of Romantic Influence in Twentieth-Century Literature, co-ed. with Damian Walford Davies, Wayne State University Press, ISBN 978-0814330586 *
• 2004: Keats's Boyish Imagination, Routledge, ISBN 978-0415288828 *
• 2002: The Politics of Language in Romantic Literature, Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN 978-0333968987 *
• 2000: Writing Essays: A Guide for Students in English and the Humanities, Routledge, ISBN 978-0415230131 *

Awards and recognition

• 2007: Keats-Shelley Prize for Poetry
• 2010: Wales Book of the Year "People's Choice" award (sponsored by Media Wales)

References

1. ^ "Richard Marggraf Turley : Wan-Hu’s Flying Chair". Salt Publishing. http://www.saltpublishing.com/books/smp/9781844714438.htm. 

External links

• Blog
• To read Richard Marggraf Turley's poem, 'Elisions'
• Richard reading 'Elisions' for the 'Telegraph Readings' series
• BBC interview with Richard Marggraf Turley
• University webpage
• Guardian, Shirley Dent blog: Keats's Season is Less Mellow than it Seems
• Salt Press homepage
• Metro interview with Richard Marggraf Turley
• TLS Commentary, 3 September 2008: 'In the Temple of Fame: "Barry Cornwall" and Keats's Reputation'
• BBC News: Researchers Take the Temperature of Love
• Guardian Science blog, Jacob Aron: Valentine's Love Poetry Brings a Hot Rush of Blood to the Cheeks
• TLS Review, 22 September 2010: "Bright Stars: John Keats, Barry Cornwall and Romantic Literary Culture

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Name	Richard Marggraf Turley
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Short description	Poet and Literary Critic
Date of birth	2 August 1970
Place of birth	United Kingdom
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