Miss Lily Beckett
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Research interests
My research primarily focuses on the connections between intermedial poetic forms and counter-hegemonic politics. I'm especially interested in the period which follows the acceleration of the modern capitalist world-system, beginning with William Blake around the 1790s and ending with poetries in the present.
In my thesis - tentatively titled 'Intermedial Poetry and its Production in the Era of Neo-Imperialism' - I'm looking at a global range of poets, all of whom have incorporated different media into their poetry to produce works that exceed conventional written-word forms. Poets whose works I'll be examining include Cecilia Vicuña, Etel Adnan, Bhanu Kapil, Kamau Brathwaite, Isaac Julien, and Linton Kwesi Johnson. I'm equally as interested in the intermedial forms of these poets' works as I am in the conditions of their production.
I started my PhD at Bristol in 2023 after completing a Master's in Comparative Literature at King's College London in 2022 and my undergraduate studies in Classics and English at Oxford University in 2021 (Regent's Park College). In 2024, I was awarded a fellowship by the Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley to undertake research on their collections related to Etel Adnan and Post-Apollo Press. In the Fall Semester of 2026, I will be returning to Berkeley as a visiting researcher at the Institute of European Studies.
Publications
Recent publications
01/08/2026Illuminating Resistance: An Intermedial Approach to William Blake’s Hybrid Poetic Forms
Interfaces
‘Neither Power nor Dependence nor Oppression’: Revisiting the Revolutionary Visions of Cecilia Vicuña’s Saborami (1973) and the Beau Geste Press
Women's Studies