Carrie Smith

Carrie Smith is a senior lecturer at Cardiff University. Her research has focused on archives and creative process. She co-edited a collection titled The Boundaries of the Literary Archive: Reclamation and Representation (2013) which draws together archivists and literary scholars to think through the multifaceted nature of archival study. Her monograph The Page is Printed: Ted Hughes’s Creative Process (2021) makes extensive use of the writer’s literary archives. Her other published work on Ted Hughes focuses on questions of authenticity and voice in his poetry readings and recordings using original interviews and research undertaken in the BBC Written archive, Hughes’s creative partnership with American artist Leonard Baskin, Hughes’s animal poems and Hughes’s textual engagement with Sylvia Plath’s work. She has also published on the manuscripts and creative practices of Roald Dahl. She is currently working on two projects: an article on BBC producer and poet D. G. Bridson’s relationship with Basil Bunting and an article on contemporary women’s poetry on the topic of assisted reproductive technology.