{"id":2338,"date":"2023-03-28T10:21:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-28T09:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.edgehill.ac.uk\/ehu19\/?p=2338"},"modified":"2023-11-29T15:50:10","modified_gmt":"2023-11-29T15:50:10","slug":"doors-of-perception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.edgehill.ac.uk\/ehu19\/2023\/03\/28\/doors-of-perception\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack and the Doors of Perception"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Jack Bennett is a sucker for the dark and mysterious.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile\"><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>There\u2019s a mysterious door on campus. M49, it reads. What lies inside number 49? Perhaps it\u2019s best left to the imagination. Jack\u2019s, to be precise. It inspired a first collection of short stories by the Edge Hill&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgehill.ac.uk\/course\/creative-writing-and-english-literature\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">English Literature and Creative Writing<\/a>&nbsp;graduate.<\/p>\n<\/div><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1000\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.edgehill.ac.uk\/ehu19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/374\/2023\/03\/jackbennett.png\" alt=\"Headshot of Jack Bennett. He is wearing a paisley shirt and glasses and is smiling to the camera.\" class=\"wp-image-2346 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.edgehill.ac.uk\/ehu19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/374\/2023\/03\/jackbennett.png 1000w, https:\/\/sites.edgehill.ac.uk\/ehu19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/374\/2023\/03\/jackbennett-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.edgehill.ac.uk\/ehu19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/374\/2023\/03\/jackbennett-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/sites.edgehill.ac.uk\/ehu19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/374\/2023\/03\/jackbennett-768x768.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s the kind of question that one of Jack\u2019s role models, Doctor Who, might find irresistible. Out with the sonic screwdriver, turn and face the strange.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jack\u2019s becoming familiar with the strange. He says the best advice he received was from American poet Emily Dickinson, via his poetry lecturer James Byrne: \u201c \u2018Tell the truth but tell it slant.\u2019 In other words, obscure your words, make the reader look at your work through a broken telescope. This helps your writing lean into the surreal.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He certainly took it on board with his final MA manuscript. \u2018Lunette\u2019, his collection of poems, took many influences from surrealism, says Jack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u2018Vampire Bites\u2019: Celebrating 125 years of Bram Stoker\u2019s Dracula<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.edgehill.ac.uk\/ehu19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/374\/2023\/03\/7TVDracula-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Flyer advertising the 7TV: Dracula internship. It features an illustration of Count Dracula. He has grey hair that is slicked back. He is wearing a black cloak and is carrying a lantern.\" class=\"wp-image-2326 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.edgehill.ac.uk\/ehu19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/374\/2023\/03\/7TVDracula-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.edgehill.ac.uk\/ehu19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/374\/2023\/03\/7TVDracula-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.edgehill.ac.uk\/ehu19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/374\/2023\/03\/7TVDracula-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.edgehill.ac.uk\/ehu19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/374\/2023\/03\/7TVDracula-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/sites.edgehill.ac.uk\/ehu19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/374\/2023\/03\/7TVDracula.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>And just last year he leaned into the surreal to create a winning entry in the \u2018Vampire Bites\u2019 creative contest at the end of 2022. At a conference celebrating 125 years of Bram Stoker\u2019s Dracula, co-organised by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgehill.ac.uk\/person\/laura-eastlake\/staff\/\">Dr Laura Eastlake<\/a>, Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Edge Hill, students were invited to explore what the figure of the vampire means to them today. Jack got his teeth into the challenge, delivering \u2018Fragments of Paole\u2019, a companion piece to Johannes Fl\u00fcckinger\u2019s 1732 medical report, Visum et Repertum, which discussed patient zero in a supposed vampiric epidemic in Serbia.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMy story explores how vampires have been associated with the changing intersections of medical and supernatural anxieties,\u201d explains Jack.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/recoveringthevampire.wordpress.com\/creative-contest\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read Jack\u2019s winning entry.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It certainly impressed the judges, which included Bram\u2019s great-grand-nephew Dacre Stoker who provided limited and signed edition prizes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Lost in the Edge Hill Archives<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile\"><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>Edge Hill has a burgeoning reputation for all things Victorian.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgehill.ac.uk\/departments\/academic\/english-and-creative-arts\/research\/ehunineteen\/\">EHU Nineteen<\/a>&nbsp;is an interdisciplinary research centre focusing on long-nineteenth century studies.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgehill.ac.uk\/killing-victoria-podcast-reveals-the-stories-of-seven-men-who-tried-and-failed-to-kill-queen-victoria\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dr Bob Nicholson\u2019s (far left) latest podcast for the BBC, Killing Victoria<\/a>, investigates the stories behind Queen Victoria\u2019s seven would-be assassins.<\/p>\n<\/div><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.edgehill.ac.uk\/ehu19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/374\/2022\/11\/ehu19staff-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1247 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.edgehill.ac.uk\/ehu19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/374\/2022\/11\/ehu19staff-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.edgehill.ac.uk\/ehu19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/374\/2022\/11\/ehu19staff-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.edgehill.ac.uk\/ehu19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/374\/2022\/11\/ehu19staff-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.edgehill.ac.uk\/ehu19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/374\/2022\/11\/ehu19staff-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/sites.edgehill.ac.uk\/ehu19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/374\/2022\/11\/ehu19staff-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/sites.edgehill.ac.uk\/ehu19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/374\/2022\/11\/ehu19staff.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>And continuing to seek out those hidden corners and crevices of the mind, the dark and mysterious shadowlands of the imagination, it\u2019s fitting that Jack is currently a project assistant in the University\u2019s reanimated archives. Jack is helping to trace Edge Hill\u2019s academic journey, from its Victorian beginnings in 1885 as the first non-denominational teacher training college for women, with 41 students, to its current incarnation as a fully-fledged university, host to almost 10,000 full-time students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI research the students that trained at Edge Hill when it was a teaching college in Liverpool,\u201d explains Jack. \u201cI didn\u2019t know there&nbsp;<em>was&nbsp;<\/em>an archive at the University, and I went nearly two years like that \u2013 a huge sadness! I\u2019d urge students and staff members to visit their archive. There are so many mysteries to uncover. We\u2019ve discovered students that were awarded MBEs, students that lived in 11 Downing Street, and others that went on to do missionary work abroad. My favourite part of the job is the feeling of excitement when people contact the archive and bring in donations.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For Jack, having a day job doesn\u2019t compromise his artistic ambitions. The archives are both \u201ca place of work and a place for creative inspiration\u201d: &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve always been very aware that I\u2019d struggle to make a living purely from writing. Unfortunately, that\u2019s just the way it is. Luckily, I have many other interests. I make art in the form of lino-cut prints, collage, and watercolours, and the archive is somewhere I love being, both as a place of work and a place for creative inspiration. My plans for the future are to simply enjoy what I do, which I\u2019m sure will include doing all of the above.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Inspiring the Poetic Mind<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>But Jack\u2019s primary literary medium is poetry. And \u2018Lunette\u2019, the collection of prose poems he submitted for his MA, was inspired by a lecture during his undergraduate degree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe most important lecture I had on my BA in English Literature and Creative Writing was on ekphrasis, which is writing on art. Ekphrastic writing is definitely my niche, and the final manuscript for my MA was poems written from Van Gogh\u2019s Arles paintings.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt was written as we were re-entering the world after the lockdowns, so themes of being displaced, of purgatory, of being between states are quite prominent. It was mainly inspired by my dad\u2019s love of canals and narrowboats, which is the setting of \u2018Lunette\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Visiting Arles is high up on Jack\u2019s bucket list. But why write poetry, Jack?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s something quite satisfying about a poem. A good poem distils a moment, sometimes a very distressing and poignant moment, into stanzas. A poem doesn\u2019t outstay its welcome, either. Or at least, not on a page \u2013 a good poem will stick with you long after you\u2019ve read it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And whose illustrious footsteps are you looking to walk in?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMy influences come from loads of places. As most of my writing is ekphrastic, the influences are usually placed on the page opposite the piece of writing they\u2019re written after \u2013 be that a painting, a sculpture, or a photograph. \u2018Cut\u2019 by Sylvia Plath always leaves me completely stunned. The way she writes about pain, the physicality and the way pain looks, is very singular to her. Or, you know, me. If only I\u2019d written it!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018Lunette\u2019 will be published by Broken Sleep. Poetry lecturer&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgehill.ac.uk\/person\/dr-james-byrne\/staff\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dr James Byrne<\/a>&nbsp;suggested they might like it. \u201cThankfully, they did!\u201d laughs Jack. On the back of this he\u2019s taken another leap into the unknown, with his first public readings:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI was so nervous, but the nerves fell away when I got up there. I saw it as a celebration. Poetry is to be performed, so there I was, performing mine! My second reading was at the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/openeye.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Open Eye Gallery in Liverpool<\/a>, to celebrate 100 years of TS Eliot\u2019s \u2018The Waste Land\u2019 (talk about poems I wish I\u2019d written\u2026!). This was a much bigger event, much more people, in a setting I was unfamiliar with. But it was a great collaborative experience. I loved it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Do I need a degree to be a writer?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.edgehill.ac.uk\/ehu19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/374\/2023\/04\/typewriter-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"An antique typewriter typing 'Once Upon a Time...'\" class=\"wp-image-2340 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.edgehill.ac.uk\/ehu19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/374\/2023\/04\/typewriter-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.edgehill.ac.uk\/ehu19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/374\/2023\/04\/typewriter-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.edgehill.ac.uk\/ehu19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/374\/2023\/04\/typewriter-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.edgehill.ac.uk\/ehu19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/374\/2023\/04\/typewriter-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/sites.edgehill.ac.uk\/ehu19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/374\/2023\/04\/typewriter.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>So would Jack have always followed a literary path, regardless of his academic route?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFirst things first: No, you don\u2019t need a degree to write. The beauty of writing is that anyone can do it. A degree sharpens the tools for writing that everyone can have. The lecturers in Creative Writing and English Lit are amazing. I always found their lectures, workshops and seminars so interesting. I\u2019d leave thinking, \u2018yeah, I chose the right course here.\u2019 Both the English Literature and Creative Writing elements had huge influences on my writing, with the Modernisms module still having its effect on my writing today.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSo my advice to someone considering studying Creative Writing and English Lit at Edge Hill? Do it. Do it. Do it. You\u2019ll learn so much about writing, about literature, but you\u2019ll also learn loads about yourself, too: what you like to read and what you don\u2019t, how to speak confidently in front of others, how to take in feedback and how to give feedback. The lecturers taught me so much.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAnalysing texts, developing opinions \u2013 and sharing those opinions in a group setting were all skills I learnt [on my degree] that have really helped my own writing \u2013 workshopping my work and developing the confidence to read it out to a group. Do it. Do it. Do it!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And, y\u2019know, whatever people may try and tell you, the University experience is about much, much more than getting a certificate at the end of it all:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI really miss the people. It\u2019s hard when you leave university and that awful realisation that you always knew was going to hit you hits you \u2013 that your mates don\u2019t all live in Ormskirk! Or even in the North of England! Or even in England! Group chats help, of course, but it\u2019s nothing like having everyone in that EHU bubble. Amazing memories I\u2019ll have forever.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFangs\u201d for your memories, Jack (\u2026and this writer will get his coat and leave by the back door).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button aligncenter is-style-fill\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.edgehill.ac.uk\/subject\/undergraduate\/creative-writing\/\" style=\"border-radius:0px\">Find out more about Creative Writing at Edge Hill University<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edge Hill Creative Writing student, Jack Bennett, has published his first collection of short stories. 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