Paul Hullah

Paul William Hullah (born June 26, 1963) is an English writer who has published several volumes of poetry, short stories, and literary criticism, as well as a series of literature-based EFL textbooks for university students in Japan and articles in several academic journals in the field of EFL. He was co-editor of the 1997 authorized international edition of the collected poetry of the major novelist Dame Iris Murdoch. He had also co-edited, in 1996, "Playback and talk show: new Edinburgh crimes", by Ian Rankin, the first book of Inspector Rebus stories to be published in Japan. [ [http://www.agulin.aoyama.ac.jp/cgi-bin/exec_cgi/ibibdet.cgi?CGILANG=japanese&U_CHARSET=euc-jp&ID=BB25233639 "Playback and talk show: new Edinburgh crimes", by Ian Rankin; edited with exercises and notes by Yozo Muroya and Paul Hullah] , www.agulin.aoyama.ac.jp. Accessed 2008-06-07]

Hullah was born in Ripon, North Yorkshire, but now lives in Japan. He attended Ripon Grammar School, and then lived and worked for over a decade as a music and arts journalist in Edinburgh, Scotland, whilst simultaneously achieving an M.A. (in English Language and Literature) and a Ph.D. (the poetry of Christina Rossetti) from the University of Edinburgh. Hullah was an active figure in the Edinburgh underground arts and music scene during the 1980s, with one of his many commercially unsuccessful bands, "Teenage Dog Orgy", nevertheless hailed as 'legendary' by the [http://www.nme.com/ NME (New Musical Express)] . He moved to Japan in 1992 and is currently Associate Professor of British Literature (Poetry) at [http://www.meijigakuin.ac.jp/index_en.html Meiji Gakuin University, Tokyo.]

Writing

"And Here's What You Could Have Won", Hullah's award-winning first book-length collection of poetry, attracted critical praise, [John Bayley, cover blurb, "And Here's What You could Have Won": "Paul Hullah’s poems are unlike any others today. They are not only very good but very direct and moving. "Love’s Long Journey" is an example. And they possess a shapeliness and clarity that other poets today might envy. Their beauty is as enigmatic as it is straightforward."] [Iris Murdoch, back cover blurb, "Let Me Sing My Song": "Fine poems… some with an enchantment that touches me deeply."] [Angus Calder, (Autumn 1998) "Understanding" (literary magazine), Dionysia Press, 127 Milton Road West, 7 Duddingston House Courtyard, Edinburgh, EH15 1JG: "Why isn't Paul Hullah's verse better known?… He often deals with poignantly transient erotic relationships, within a European tradition that goes back to the troubadours. He does so with modesty and wry humour… His rhythms suggest on one hand rock lyrics, on the other the virtuoso technical versatility of Romantic and post-Romantic nineteenth century writers. But his conversational personality is very much his own. I think that only a very stuffy or bigoted proponent of some other kind of poetry could resist that candid, rueful, singing personality.] with reviewers variously noting echoes of W. S. Graham, John Ashbery and Christina Rossetti (about whom Hullah has published several critical essays) in the layered lyrical pieces. His second collection, "Let Me Sing My Song" (Dionysia, 2000) contained more confessional poetry, though retaining the wit and collisions of imagery of earlier work. "Unquenched", a slim volume of haiku in English, illustrated by the Scottish artist Susan Mowatt, was published by Afterdays Press, Scotland, in 2002. [Unquenched, Afterdays, Edinburgh 2002, ISBN 0-9542718-0-7] 'Age's Bullets', the most recent volume of Hullah's poems was published in 2006 by Vagabond Press, Sydney, Australia.

Bibliography

*"Playback and talk show: new Edinburgh crimes", by Ian Rankin, ed. with Y. Muroya (Kenkyusha: Tokyo, 1996) ISBN 4-327-42132-4
*"Poems by Iris Murdoch", ed. with Y. Muroya (University Education Press: Okayama, 1997) ISBN 4887302037
*"And Here’s What You Could Have Won", (Dionysia: Edinburgh, 1997) ISBN 0952234122
*"Passports to Comprehension" (Textbook), ed. with Y. Muroya (University Education Press: Okayama, 1998) ISBN 4887302614
*"Occasional Essays by Iris Murdoch", ed. with Y. Muroya (University Education Press: Okayama, 1998) ISBN 4887302517
*"Romanticism and Wild Places, Essays in Memory of Paul Edwards", (Quadriga: Edinburgh, 1998) ISBN 1859330088 [Cited in cite journal | last = | first = | authorlink = | coauthors = | year = 1998| month = | title = Yorkshire Landscapes in Wuthering Heights| journal = Essays in Criticism | volume = XLVIII| issue = 1| pages = 13-34| id = |publisher = Oxford University Press|doi = 10.1093/eic/XLVIII.1.13| url = http://eic.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/XLVIII/1/13.pdf | accessdate = 2008-06-01| quote = , and in cite journal | last = | first = | authorlink = | coauthors = | year = 1998| month = | title = XII The Nineteenth Century: The Romantic Period | journal = The Year's Work in English Studies | volume = 79| issue = 1| pages = 443-545 | id = |publisher = Oxford University Press, English Association|doi = 10.1093/ywes/79.1.443| url = http://ywes.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/79/1/443.pdf | accessdate = 2008-06-01| quote = ] [Also cited by [http://www.environment.gov.au/heritage/publications/pubs/convict-sites.pdf "Convict Sites"] , Australian Government, and by [http://sra.uaeu.ac.ae/english/html/publications/Faculty_Research/PDF/CHSS_English_Language_1997.pdf "Department of English Language and Literature"] , Research Affairs, UAE University ]
*"More Passports to Comprehension" (Textbook), ed. with Y. Muroya (University Education Press: Okayama, 1999) ISBN 4887303122
*"Let Me Sing My Song", (Dionysia: Edinburgh, 2000) ISBN 1903171016
*"Songs of Ourselves" (EFL Textbook), (University Education Press: Okayama, 2002) ISBN 4887304692
*"Unquenched", (Afterdays Press: Scotland, UK, 2002) ISBN 4887303122
*"A Choice of British Poetry", edited with P. Robinson, et al., (Saytosha Press: Tokyo, 2003) ISBN 4921209111

Journal publications

* cite journal | last = Hullah | first = P. | authorlink = | coauthors = | year = 1996 | month = July | title = 'The Fire Has Died Out?' : Christina Rossetti'S Devotional Poetry (I) | journal = Journal of the Faculty of Letters, Okayama University | volume = 25 | issue = | pages = | id = ISSN:02854864 | url = http://www.google.com/translate_c?hl=en&sl=ja&u=http://ci.nii.ac.jp/cinii/servlet/QuotDisp%3FLOCALID%3DART0000777249%26DB%3DNELS%26USELANG%3Den | accessdate = 2008-06-02 | quote =
* cite journal | last = Hullah | first = P. | authorlink = | coauthors = | year = 1996 | month = December | title = 'Wearied of self, I turn, my God, to Thee...' : Christina Rossetti'S Devotional Poetry (II) | journal = Journal of the Faculty of Letters, Okayama University | volume = 26 | issue = | pages = pp. 153-167 | id = ISSN:02854864 | url = http://www.google.com/translate_c?hl=en&sl=ja&u=http://ci.nii.ac.jp/cinii/servlet/QuotDisp%3FLOCALID%3DART0000777265%26DB%3DNELS%26USELANG%3Den | accessdate = 2008-06-02 | quote =
* cite journal | last = Hullah | first = P. | authorlink = | coauthors = | year = 1997 | month = July | title = A Search for Stability : A Reading of Dante's Vita Nuova
journal = Journal of the Faculty of Letters, Okayama University | volume = 27 | issue = | pages = pp. 237-243 | id = ISSN:02854864 | url = http://www.google.com/translate_c?hl=en&sl=ja&u=http://ci.nii.ac.jp/cinii/servlet/QuotDisp%3FLOCALID%3DART0000777284%26DB%3DNELS%26USELANG%3Den | accessdate = 2008-06-02 | quote =
* cite journal | last = Hullah | first = P. | authorlink = | coauthors = | year = 1997 | month = December | title = 'Calling All into Doubt' : Art,Life,and Identity in IrisMurdoch's 'Not Highly Regarded' The Italian Girl | journal = Memoirs of the Faculty of Education and Culture, Miyazaki University. Humanities | volume = 15 | issue = | pages = 9-15 | id = ISSN:13454005 | url = | accessdate = 2008-06-02 | quote =
* cite journal | last = Hullah | first = P. | authorlink = | coauthors = | year = 1997 | month = December | title = Musician among the Images : Reading the Lyrics of Steven Kilbey | journal =Journal of the Faculty of Letters, Okayama University | volume = 28 | issue = | pages = 159-169 | id = ISSN: 02854864 | url = http://www.google.com/translate_c?hl=en&sl=ja&u=http://ci.nii.ac.jp/cinii/servlet/QuotDisp%3FLOCALID%3DART0000777302%26DB%3DNELS%26USELANG%3Den | accessdate = 2008-06-02 | quote =
* cite journal | last = Hullah | first = P. | authorlink = | coauthors = | year = 1998 | month = July | title = 'What can it mean ? ' : Christina Rossetti's 'My Dream'
journal = Journal of the Faculty of Letters, Okayama University | volume = 29 | issue = | pages = pp. 137-142 | id = ISSN:02854864 | url = http://www.google.com/translate_c?hl=en&sl=ja&u=http://ci.nii.ac.jp/cinii/servlet/QuotDisp%3FLOCALID%3DART0000777316%26DB%3DNELS%26USELANG%3Den | accessdate = 2008-06-02 | quote =
* cite journal | last = Hullah | first = P. | authorlink = | coauthors = | year = 1998 | month = December | title = 'Give me my fee...' : Christina Rossetti's Milkmaids | journal = Journal of the Faculty of Letters, Okayama University | volume = 30 | issue = | pages = pp. 225-231 | id = ISSN:02854864 | url = http://www.google.com/translate_c?hl=en&sl=ja&u=http://ci.nii.ac.jp/cinii/servlet/QuotDisp%3FLOCALID%3DART0000777338%26DB%3DNELS%26USELANG%3Den| accessdate = 2008-06-02 | quote =
* cite journal | last = Hullah | first = P. | authorlink = | coauthors = | year = 2000 | month = December | title = Biblical Recontextualisation in Christina Rossetti's Monna Innominata | journal = Journal of the Faculty of Letters, Okayama University | volume = 34 | issue = December | pages = pp. 199-206 | id = ISSN:02854864 | url = http://209.85.171.104/translate_c?hl=en&sl=ja&u=http://ci.nii.ac.jp/cinii/servlet/QuotDisp%3FLOCALID%3DART0000777397%26DB%3DNELS%26USELANG%3Den | accessdate = 2008-06-02 | quote =
* cite journal | last = Hullah | first = P. | authorlink = | coauthors = | year = 2003 | month = September | title = L2 Learner Attitudes to EFL Textbooks | journal = The Language Teacher | volume = 27 | issue = 9 | pages = 13-17 | id = | url = http://www.jalt-publications.org/tlt/articles/2003/09/hullah | accessdate = 2008-06-02 | quote =
* cite journal | last = Hullah | first = P. | authorlink = | coauthors = | year = 2004 | month = August | title = Course book choices; a rebuttal to Simon Cole | journal = The Language Teacher | volume = 28 | issue = 8 | pages = 26 | id = | url = http://www.jalt-publications.org/tlt/articles/2004/08/views | accessdate = 2008-06-02 | quote = [See: Cole, S. (2004). [http://www.jalt-publications.org/tlt/articles/2004/08/views Course book choices; a response to Paul Hullah] , (TLT 27/9) The Language Teacher, 28(8), 25-26.]
* cite journal | last = Hullah | first = P. | authorlink = | coauthors = | year = 2005 | month = | title = My Alchemist' : Another Archetype Reworked in Christina Rossetti's The Prince's Progress | journal = Memoirs of the Faculty of Education and Culture, Miyazaki University. Humanities | volume = 13 | issue = | pages = pp. 45-52 | id = ISSN:13454005 | url = | accessdate = 2008-06-02 | quote =

References and Notes

External links

* [http://geocities.com/hullah.geo/ Paul Hullah Selected Poetry]
* [http://eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/custom/portlets/recordDetails/detailmini.jsp?_nfpb=true&_&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=ED403779&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=no&accno=ED403779 "Reader Autonomy: Language Learners Responding to Literary Texts"] , ERIC #: ED403779, 1996