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Wright, Patrick (2025). Ekphrasis outside the frame: towards a model of therapeutic nature writing. Writing in Education(94) pp. 45–47.

Wright, Patrick (2025). Exit Strategy. Llandysul, UK: Broken Sleep Books.

Wright, Patrick (2024). The Ekphrasis of Abstract Paintings through Oulipo and Other Critical Techniques. Writing in Practice, 10 pp. 99–113.

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Wright, Patrick (2024). I research the therapeutic qualities of writing about art - here are three steps for trying it yourself. The Conversation.

Wright, Patrick (2024). 'Cornelia Parker's Cold Dark Matter and the ekphrasis of grief'. In: We Need to Write About Art: Ekphrasis Now, 6 Jul 2024, Leeds Trinity University, Leeds, UK.

Wright, Patrick (2024). Ekphrasis outside the frame: towards a model of therapeutic nature writing'. In: National Association of Writers in Education Conference: Writing to Connect, 9 Nov 2024, Online.

Wright, Patrick (2023). Form, formlessness and the lyric: Art as a lens for re-presenting loss. In: Great Writing Conference, 15-16 Jul 2023, University College London.

Wright, Patrick (2023). Making use of digital technologies for creative writing in lockdown. In: National Association of Writers in Education Conference: Living as a Writer, 12-13 Mar 2023, Online.

Wright, Patrick (2023). Exit Strategy : Ekphrasis Through The Lens Of The Abstract And The Formless. Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) thesis The Open University.

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Wright, Patrick (2023). Making Use of Reproductions for Creative Writing at a Distance. Writing in Education(89) pp. 49–52.

Wright, Patrick (2022). Exploded form: Cornelia Parker's Cold Dark Matter. In: Contemporary Cultures of Writing, 15 Nov 2022, Online.

Wright, Patrick (2022). Framing Catastrophe: The Ekphrastic Prose Poem. In: Caldwell, Anne and Hardwick, Paul eds. Prose Poetry in Theory and Practice. London: Routledge, pp. 156–170.

Wright, Patrick (2021). Ethics in life writing. In: National Association of Writers in Education Conference: What Next? Writing in Education and Communities in 2021 and Beyond, 12-13 Mar 2021, Online.

Wright, Patrick (2021). The Ethics of Life Writing: Full Sight of Her. Writing in Education(83) pp. 73–75.

Wright, Patrick (2020). Full Sight of Her. London: Eyewear Publishing.

Wright, Patrick (2020). Between the margins: Formless painting and the ekphrastic prose poem. In: 5th Cambridge Arts and Humanities Research Council DTP International Conference, 21-22 Sep 2020, Online.

Wright, P. (2020). 'Sunlit now, we see the devastation': Apocalyptic Themes in Michael Symmons Roberts' Drysalter. Brief Encounters, 1(4) pp. 101–109.

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Wright, Patrick (2019). Not trusting our eyes: The ekphrasis of abstract and monochromatic painting. In: 2019 AHRC DTP Conference on Trust and Truth, 18-20 Sep 2019, University of Cambridge.

Wright, Patrick (2019). A hybrid form? The ekphrastic prose poem. In: Prose Poetry Symposium, 13 Jul 2019, Leeds Trinity University.

Wright, Patrick (2019). Seeing Darkly: Ekphrasis of the formless or with impaired vision. In: Great Writing Conference, 06-07 Jul 2019, Imperial College London.

Wright, Patrick (2019). A critique of contemporary ekphrasis. Agenda 53: 1-2.

Wright, Patrick (2018). Seeing like a Martian: Ekphrasis with evenly-hovering attention. In: National Association of Writers in Education Conference, 09-11 Nov 2018, York.

Wright, Patrick (2018). Seeing flatly: Towards a New Approach to Ekphrasis. Writing in Education(77) pp. 44–50.

Wright, Patrick (2017). Nullaby. Lorgnette series. London: Eyewear Publishing.

Wright, Patrick (2017). Ekphrasis in Response to the Non-Figurative Image. Axon: Creative Explorations, 7(2)

Wright, P. (2017). Empathising with bog bodies: Seamus Heaney and the feminine sublime. Brief Encounters, 1(1)

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Wright, Patrick (2013). Fallen Pictures. Oneiros Books.

Wright, Patrick (2012). Critical Intimacy: Lowry's Seascapes and the Art of Ekphrasis. In: Taylor, Elinor; Joseph-Darlington, Daniel and Cookney, Greg Bevan eds. Extremity and Excess. Salford: University of Salford Press, pp. 179–198.

Wright, Patrick (2010). A Timeless Sublime? reading the feminine sublime in the discourse of the sacred. Angelaki, 15(2) pp. 85–100.

Wright, Patrick (2009). Marguerite Porete's Mirror of Simple Souls and the Subject of Annihilation. Mystics Quarterly, 35(3/4) pp. 63–98.

Wright, Patrick (2008). Coleridge’s Translucence: A Failed Transcendence? Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net(50)

Wright, Patrick (2007). Rapturous Visions: Mysticism, the Sublime, and the Discourse of Sacrifice. Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) thesis University of Manchester.