This month we are celebrating poetry at Liverpool University Press, with a selection of journal articles free to read for May 2021.

Spanning topics as broad as dialect poetry during the Lancashire cotton famine to the ways in which David Bowie shares Lord Byron’s fascination with identity. 

Journal articles free to read until May 31st 2021:

Bulletin of Contemporary Hispanic Studies

RECONSIDERING THE ENVIRONMENT AND CONFIGURING A TRUTH THROUGH CONTEMPORARY GALICIAN POETRY
ALETHIA ALFONSO-GARCÍA 

Journal of Romance Studies

BEAUTY, POWER, AND DESIRE: NOTES ON ANA LUÍSA AMARAL’S POETICS
PAULO DE MEDEIROS

Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire

“CHEER UP A BIT LUNGER”: THE FUNCTION OF DIALECT POETRY DURING THE LANCASHIRE COTTON FAMINE
JACK COTTAM

Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies

TOWARD A NEW MADWOMAN THEORY: RECKONING THE PATHOLOGIZATION OF SYLVIA PLATH
MARIA ROVITO

Australian Journal of French Studies

POETRY, CARE AND VALUE: JEAN-MICHEL MAULPOIX’S UNE HISTOIRE DE BLEU (1992)
SUSAN HARROW

The Byron Journal

MY SLUMBERS—IF I SLUMBER—ARE NOT SLEEP’: THE BYRONIC HERO’S POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER
LARA ASSAAD

‘SOMETIMES I FEEL LIKE THE WHOLE HUMAN RACE’: LORD BYRON AND DAVID BOWIE CONSIDER THE QUESTION OF IDENTITY
EMILY A. BERNHARD-JACKSON

Modern Believing

THE ‘PIERLESS’ FAITH OF EMILY DICKINSON
DANIEL BOSCALJON

Essays in Romanticism

INSIDE VOICE: CHARLOTTE SMITH, SILENCE, AND THE SONNET OF INSENSIBILITY
CHRISTIE COGNEVICH

Bulletin of Hispanic Studies

THEY SAIL TO BYZANTIUM: SPANISH WOMEN POETS AND AGEING
CATHERINE BELLVER