Dr Lucy Mercer
Status/discipline:
English
Contact Details:
Current projects:
Co-editor of the forthcoming Royal Society of Literature funded podcast and publication: Too Little/ Too Hard: Writers on the Intersections of Work, Time and Value; Co-Investigator of Leverhulme funded project 'Poetry and Indiscipline’, focusing on the role of interdisciplinary critical poetics within institutions and subject fields; Solid-fluids - making art candles as Croydon Candles, as well as considering the properties of solid-fluids and the relation of wax to ice and heat, as well as everyday environments and mortality.
Previous publications:
first poetry collection Emblem (Prototype 2022), which was a Poetry Book Society choice and with the artist Jamie Shovlin, the pamphlet Renewal (Kelder Press, 2021); my doctoral thesis focused on developing an speculative ecological theory of obscurity in relation to early modern emblems.