Sharon Morris is a

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poet and a senior lecturer at the

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(Film and Video),

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. In 2000 she completed a

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on the writer

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and the artist

Claude Cahun Claude Cahun (, born Lucy Renee Mathilde Schwob; 25 October 1894 – 8 December 1954) was a French surrealist photographer, sculptor, and writer. Schwob adopted the pseudonym Claude Cahun in 1914. Cahun is best known as a writer and self-portr ...

, and in 2003 received a Leverhulme research fellowship for her writings on poetics, visual theory and semiotics. In addition, she has exhibited photography, film and video, and performed live artworks, combining spoken text with projected images.

Works

Her first poetry collection ''False Spring'' was published in 2007 as the third volume in the Enitharmon New Poets Series. Her poems can also be found in several journals and anthologies, including ''Tying the Song'' (Enitharmon, 2000), the first anthology from The Poetry School, ''In the Company of Poets'' (Hearing Eye, 2003) and ''This Little Stretch of Life'' (Hearing Eye, 2007).

External links

UCL Film Studies websiteEnitharmon Press websiteHearing Eye Publications websiteLeverhulme Trust website
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