Dr. Claire Hélie

Abstract

This paper will suggest that contemporary poetic productions that include dialect use a form of dialogical realism which calls for a new label. Through references to works like Helen Mort’s Division Street (2013), Katrina Porteous’s Two Countries (2014), Harry Josephine Giles’s Deep Wheel Orcadia (2021), and Daljit Nagra’s Indiom (2023), this paper will delineate the contours of postdialect poetry, a genre in which issues of authenticity, voice and construal are reassessed.

Biography

Dr. Claire Hélie is a senior lecturer at Université de Lille. She specialises in contemporary British poetry. She is currently writing a monograph on dialect in contemporary British poetry while starting a nex project on the concept of poetic democracy. She also translates poetry and plays from English into French (Ely, Armitage, Berry...).