I found then by this experience that which no Philosopher ever dreamed of”: Knowledge, Doubt and the Moon’, Plague, Pastors and Lunatics: Religion and the Circulation of Knowledge panel, Society for Renaissance Studies 8th Biennial Conference, University of Sheffield, Oral presentation. 2018 In many ways, I could relate to the poems about finding peace within your body and I'm so incredibly happy to reach a point where I can read a poem like Wiley's and feel that it does apply to me. Like dang, if this is what growing old is, I'll absolutely take it. She writes about this so fantastically. I was trying to find something new to read and when I saw LGBT+ and poetry, I knew I had to read this. Eventually, I realized that I've heard Wiley's poems before in their spoken version so I was happy for a chance to read more of her work. Thanks to NetGalley for providing me with a copy of this in return for my unbiased review! Willie RJ. "I thought my blood derived a Crown to us, / But now I find it derives only Treason": Remembering and Forgetting the civil war Bayer M, Navitsky J. Shakespeare and Civil Unrest in Britain and the United States Routledge 9780367741952 DOI Publisher Url Public Url Books (edited)

But in 2010, she was spurred to write in response to two incidents that highlighted negative treatment of fat people in the U.S. Rachel Wiley’s Revenge Body is a blue star blooming in the throat and you need this heat. Wiley guides through the intimacies of family, body, love, and health with an assertive tenderness, unabashed humanity, wit and bravado. Her poems brawl with bold rhythms, bolder forms, and gut-punching confession. Through these poems, Wiley teaches us to delight in the messiness of ourselves. All in all, this is a solid collection. It's engaging and truthful. Wiley's voice comes across as earnest and genuine. I absolutely recommend this if you're in the mood for some positive poetry. His Time was short, and yours is coming on; Old Oliver had his”: remembering and forgetting the civil war’, Bangor Conference on the Restoration, Bangor University, Oral presentation. 2019 We don't talk nearly enough about the way most of the "compliments" we give people about their bodies are actually not compliments.

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In Fat Girl Finishing School, Rachel Wiley speaks about her experiences as a biracial, queer, fat woman. The collection focuses on self-love and self-acceptance, body positivity, the struggles and privileges of being a white-passing biracial person, queerness and relationships. In August 2012, Riley married Jamie Gilbert, whom she had met while they were both studying at the University of Oxford. It was announced in November 2013 that they were separating. [17] The split has been cited as an example of the Strictly curse. [18] She began dating her Strictly dance partner, Pasha Kovalev, soon after the show ended in December 2013. In May 2019, Riley announced that she was pregnant with the couple's first child. [19] On 28 June 2019, [20] Riley and Kovalev married in Las Vegas. [21] On 15 December 2019, Riley gave birth to a baby girl. [22] In April 2021, Riley announced that she was pregnant with the couple's second child. [23] On 5 November 2021, Riley gave birth to their second daughter. [24] Fat Girl Finishing School is truly for all the girls, no matter the color of their skin or the size of their thighs. The ones who have found love and those who haven’t. The ones who love girls, who love boys, or haven’t figured out who they love yet. The ones who own their truth or one day hope to. Searing, commanding, and relentlessly brilliant, Revenge Body is a visceral journey of how to come home to yourself after a history of hurt. This collection is truly genius. Rachel Wiley makes me want to be a better writer, and there are poems in here that will welcomely haunt me for the rest of my life. What a masterpiece, what a breathtaking dive.

In any case, I recently finished Wiley's first collection, Fat Girl Finishing School and liked it so I was excited to read more of her work. Right now, I feel like I can't read anything too heavy (thanks, Econ test) so this felt like a perfect thing to read in between studying. If you take one thing away from this review, let it be this. Rachel Wiley is a writer. Her words will fill your souls and make you feel seen. Maybe not the entire book, but in it there is a poem or two that will make you feel like she was writing it to you. Next to that will be one that I think is for me. And next to that is one that you will think is perfect for that friend who needs to feel seen too.

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I knew this book was going to be amazing before I bought it. What I didn't realize was what level of amazing it was going to be. Trust, Risk, and Vulnerability in Paradise Lost, ‘Vulnerability and Pastoral Care: John Milton, Richard Baxter, and Roger L’Estrange’ panel, Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, Dublin, Oral presentation. 2022

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I really loved this collection of poems, which is both cheeky and says something deeper about the culture of fatphobia, dating, and identity. Nothing is Okay demands you to grab someone and read aloud to them. I can’t wait to get my hands on Fat Girl Finishing School. http://projects.au.dk/trust-and-risk-in-literature-network/, Aarhus University, Trust and Risk in Literature Research Network (funded by the Danish Research Council). 2015 Before joining LJMU in 2016, I taught at Bangor University, the University of Manchester and the University of York. I have taught extensively across all periods of English literary history and interdisciplinary modules on the relationship between music and text. My teaching is fundamentally dialogic, encouraging students to explore ideas through discussion and analysis as a way to extend and stimulate critical thinking. I would be happy to receive proposals for postgraduate research on early modern literature and culture, especially on early modern drama; early modern prose; seventeenth century political thought; early modern science and religion; performance and the paper stage; adaptation; myth and cultural memory; writing history; materialities. Degrees Willie RJ. 2010. Kathryn Lowerre, "Music and Musicians on the London Stage, 1695-1705" NTQ: New Theatre Quarterly, 26 :302-303 DOI Publisher Url The Obiect of the Eare, doe affect the Spirits”: Meditation, Memory, and Reading with your Ears, Edinburgh Early Modern Network, Edinburgh/online, Oral presentation. 2020

http://makingpublics.mcgill.ca/, McGill University, Making Publics Project (joined project in 2009). 2005Willie RJ. Inscribing Textuality: Milton, Davenant, Authorship and the Performance of Print Depledge E, Garrison J, Narcosia M. Making Milton: Writing, Publication, Reception Oxford University Press DOI Publisher Url Public Url These be the humours that content me best”: time and [e]motion in John Lyly’s "The Woman in the Moon"’,, Time and Emotion Seminar, Shakespeare Association of America 46th Annual Conference, Los Angeles, Oral presentation. 2018