Emily earned her PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia. She is a psychologist, a geographer, and an amateur astronomer. Her dissertation, entitled The Psychodynamics of Poetry, was published by Lambert Academic Publications, 2010. Modern Ekphrasis was published by Peter… Read More »Dr. Emily Bilman
My essay on Plath’s poem “Ariel” appeared in Twelve Rivers, the Suffolk Poetry Society’s literary magazine and can be obtained through them.
Apperception by Emily Bilman – a book of poetry about the excessive dreaming process we experienced during the pandemic. Dreaming often takes us back to our childhood memories and wishes as we deal with our confinement. In the book, the dreaming poet vanquishes her foreboding… Read More »Apperception
My essay on my theory of creativity linked to sublimation and the therapeutic potential of poetry is published online in “WILD COURT”, King’s College magazine in the University of London.
I am delighted to announce the publication of my new book of poetry, “The Threshold of Broken Waters” by Troubador Books, UK in October 2018. The book is a creative memoir in verse. Orders can be made through me. I am a regular blogger on… Read More »A new book and blog by Emily Bilman
A Woman By a Well by Emily Bilman – In these poems, the writer explores the deepest and most mysterious aspects of herself and we, the readers, are assisted in our own self-explorations. The sense of exile from the world and from oneself, which Emily… Read More »A Woman By A Well
Resilience by Emily Bilman – A collection of poetry. With her skilful use of metaphor and her wonderful use of language and imagery, Emily Bilman reminds us that our capacity for resilience endows us with the power to survive trauma. The modern Faust, to whom… Read More »Resilience
Modern Ekphrasis by Emily Bilman – A book of poetry. This book traces the evolution of ekphrasis from Plato to Derrida by analysing modern poems by Sylvia Plath, WC Williams, Nemerov, Ashbery and paintings by de Chirico, Charles Demuth, Paul Klee, Frank Stella, etc. in… Read More »Modern Ekphrasis
La Rivière de Soi – By Emily Bilman – a book of poetry published in Geneva, Switzerland. The book is available from Slatkine Editions, Geneva.
The Psychodynamics of Poetry by Emily Bilman – Exploring the relations between narcissistic trauma and psychoanalytic symbolism in poetry. I focus on the analysis of the primal scene, the Oedipal conflict and its non-resolution symbolised in T.S.Eliot, Paul Valéry, and my poetry. To emphasise sublimation,… Read More »The Psychodynamics of Poetry: Poetic Virtuality and Oedipal Sublimation in the Poetry of T.S. Eliot and Paul Valéry