Ben Philipps

Thesis title: Philosophy and Style in Modern Poetry

Supervisor: Professor Matthew Bevis

Research interests: Modern Anglophone poetry, poetics, philosophy and/of/as literature (esp. pragmatism and philosophy of language post-Wittgenstein), stylistics, humour, literary criticism.

(Some) writers of interest: John Ashbery, Elizabeth Bishop, Veronica Forrest-Thomson, Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens. Theodor Adorno, Stanley Cavell, Ludwig Wittgenstein.

Publications:

‘The Comedian as Wallace Stevens’, Essays in Criticism, 74.1 (2024), pp. 48–65, doi:10.1093/escrit/cgae002.

'That Funny Money-Man: A Hundred Years of Harmonium', Critical Quarterly, 66.3 (2024), pp. 119-125, doi:10.1111/criq.12781

'Reading the Data Subject’ (as member of the Privacy Settings Collective), Post45, cluster on ‘Reading with Algorithms’ (2023).

'The Chateau Hardware', Annulet, 8 (2024), https://annuletpoeticsjournal.com/Ben-Philipps-On-John-Ashbery-s-The-Chateau-Hardwarer

I also write literary and arts criticism for a range of outlets. My poems occasionally appear in magazines; earlier this year I was named the winner of the Telegraph Poetry competition. An interview I did about that (plus the poem) is available here: https://archive.is/OgRP6.