Oliver Newman, Girton

Degree: PhD
Course: English
Supervisor: Dr Deborah Bowman
Dissertation Title:

Strong Silent Type: What Thom Gunn doesn't say, and how it gets in anyway..


Biographical Information

I studied English and French as an undergraduate before going on to do an MSt. in Creative Writing at Oxford. Then, after several years of full-time work, I began my doctoral thesis on the poet Thom Gunn. 

Research Interests

My research interests are mainly poetry-based across the following areas: Lyric; poetic form; rhythm and metre; rhetorical techniques and repetition; intersections of English and French verse; poetry in translation; old English Poetry; Modern and Contemporary poetry; Shakespeare; Wordsworth; nature poetry; poetic influence and inheritence.

I teach lots of PCCP - Part I and Part II, and I am always happy to hear from students with similar research interests across the faculties of English, French, and ASNC. Most recently, I have supervised students writing about the work(s) of: John Banville, Albert Camus, Elizabeth Bishop, and Ted Hughes.

Selected Publications

A couple of my (older) poems can be read here ...