Caroline Bergvall’s Medievalist Poetics

Joshua Davies is Senior Lecturer in Medieval Literature in the Department of English at King’s College London and published Visions and Ruins: Cultural Memory and the Untimely Middle Ages in 2018.Caroline Bergvall, Global Professorial Fellow, Queen Mary University London, is an award-winning poet, artist, and performer. She has an interdisciplinary practice, working across artforms, media, and languages in a wide range of contexts.

• List of IllustrationsDavid Wallace, "Foreword"Caroline Bergvall and Joshua Davies, "Introduction"Part 1: Meddle EnglishDocuments 1: Drew Milne, "A Veritable Dollmine"2: Mary Wilson, Meddle English3: Jacob Edmond, “'Let’s Do a Gertrude Stein on It': Caroline Bergvall and Iterative Poetics"4: Robert Sheppard, "Inventive Reworkings: Transformation and Translation in Caroline Bergvall’s Meddle English"5: Candace Barrington, "Midden, Trash, and Garbage: The Discourse of Debris in Bergvall’s 'The Franker Tale (Deus Hic, 2)'”6: Vincent Broqua, Translative Bergvall, or the Work of TranslationPart 2: DriftDocuments 7: So Mayer, "All at Sea"8: David Kaufmann, "Drift"9: Cherry Smyth, "Caroline Bergvall’s Drift"   10: Áine McMurtry, "Giving a Syntax to the Cry: Caroline Bergvall’s Drift"11: Adalaide Morris, "Forensic listening: NourbeSe Philip’s Zong!, Caroline Bergvall’s Drift, and the Contemporary Long Poem"12: Sierra Lomuto, Drifting into the Fog: The Opacity of the Past in Caroline Bergvall’s Drift"Part 3: Alisoun SingsDocuments 13: Greg Bem, "Alisoun Sings"14: Charles Theonia, "Collective Poesy: The Disruptive Pleasures of Caroline Bergvall’s Alisoun Sings"15: Kyoo Lee, "Alisounation"16: Usha Vishnuvajjala, "Alisoun’s Friends: Caroline Bergvall’s Community of Alisouns"17: Tamsin Blaxter, "Old Language is Dredged up a New"18: Marion Turner, "Alisoun after Alisoun"19: Georgina Colby, “'A happy combimess, simple': Forms of Activism and Collective Resistance in Alisoun Sings"Part 4: Other Voices20: Charles Bernstein, "Bergvall’s Meddling and Brush up your Chaucer"21: Sawako Nakayasu, "Dream Number One"22: Mónica de la Torre, "Parable"23: Vincent Broqua, Abigail Lang, Anne Portugal, "Le Non Conte (Funérailles)"24: Erín Moure, "In Arborescence"25: Imogen Stidworthy, "Airborne"26: Anthony Vahni Capildeo, "Weather Systems"Part 5: Interviews27: Susan Rudy28: Eva Heisler29: Greg NissanRachael Gilmour, "Afterword"Select Bibliography on Bergvall’s Medievalist TrilogyIndex