A Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Poetry, 1960 - 2015. Группа авторов
Raw Amber: An Anthology of Contemporary Lithuanian Poetry (2002), The Romantic Imagination: A William Oxley Casebook (2005), Fiction and Literary Prizes in Great Britain (2006), Ovid's “Metamorphoses” in English Poetry (2009), Mozart in Anglophone Cultures (2009), and Sound Is/As Sense (2016, with David Malcolm).
Ludmiła Gruszewska‐Blaim is associate professor of English and American literature at the University of Gdańsk. She specializes in cultural semiotics, (post)modernist poetics, and utopian studies. She is the author and (co)editor of books on twentieth‐ and twenty‐first century literature and cinema. Her book publications on poetry include Visions and Re‐visions in T. S. Eliot's Poetry (1996; in Polish); Essays on Modern British and Irish Poetry (2005; coedited with David Malcolm); Here/Now—Then/There: Traditions, Memory, Innovation in Modern British and Irish Poetry (2011; coedited with David Malcolm).
Małgorzata Grzegorzewska is a professor in the Institute of English Studies at the University of Warsaw. Her principal research interests lie in Shakespeare studies, Renaissance poetry, and the interrelations of drama, verse, and metaphysical and theological concerns.
Robert Hampson is professor of modern literature at Royal Holloway, University of London. During the 1970s, he coedited the poetry magazine Alembic. He coedited New British Poetries: The Scope of the Possible (Manchester UP, 1993); Frank O'Hara Now (Liverpool UP, 2010); Clasp: Late Modernist Poetry in London in the 1970s (Shearsman Books, 2016); and The Salt Companion to Allen Fisher (with cris cheek, Shearsman Books, 2019). His collection of poems, Reworked Disasters (KFS, 2013), was long‐listed for the Forward Prize.
Ralf Hertel is a professor of English literature at the University of Trier, Germany. He is the author of Making Sense: Sense Perception in the British Novel of the 1980s and 1990s (Brill Rodopi, 2005) and coeditor of Performing National Identity: Anglo‐Italian Cultural Transactions (with Manfred Pfister, Brill, 2008) and On John Berger: Telling Stories (with David Malcolm, Brill Rodopi, 2015).
Peter Hughes is a poet, painter, and the founding editor of Oystercatcher Press. He was born in Oxford in 1956, based in Italy for many years, and now lives on the Norfolk coast. He is the author of over a dozen books of poetry, which include Nistanimera, The Sardine Tree, The Summer of Agios Dimitrios, Behoven, and The Pistol Tree Poems. Nathan Thompson has described the latter as “flickering, intense, innovative and utterly mesmerizing.”
Peter Hühn was for many years a professor of British studies at the University of Hamburg. His principal interests include: English poetry of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Modernism, Yeats, and contemporary poetry. He has also worked extensively in the field of narratology. His current research projects include: concepts of plot in the British and American crime novel of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and, in particular, the popular genre in the twentieth century; contemporary British and Irish poetry, postmodernist tendencies. A recent publication is Facing Loss and Death: Narrative and Eventfulness in Lyric Poetry (De Gruyter, 2016).
Jerzy Jarniewicz is a Polish poet, translator, and literary critic, who lectures in English at the University of Łódź. He has published 12 volumes of poetry, 13 critical books on contemporary Irish, British, and American literature and has written extensively for various journals, including Poetry Review, Irish Review, and Cambridge Review. He is the editor of the literary monthly Literatura na Świecie (Warsaw) and has translated the work of many novelists and poets, including James Joyce, John Banville, Seamus Heaney, Raymond Carver, Philip Roth, and Edmund White. His most recent works include two anthologies: Sześć Poetek Irlandzkich – Six Irish Women Poets (Biuro Literackie, 2012) and Poetki z Wysp – Women Poets from Britain (Biuro Literackie, 2015), which he selected and translated.
David Kennedy was senior lecturer in English and creative writing at the University of Hull, United Kingdom. He researched modern and contemporary poetry in English with special interests in elegy, ekphrasis, and experimental writing. He published articles in English, Irish Studies Review, and Textual Practice. He is the author of Necessary Steps: Poetry, Elegy, Walking, Spirit (Shearsman Books, 2007) and The Ekphrastic Encounter in Contemporary British Poetry and Elsewhere (Ashgate, 2012), and he is the coauthor of Women's Experimental Poetry in Britain 1970–2010: Body, Time and Locale (Liverpool UP, 2013). David Kennedy died in 2017.
Monika Kocot is assistant professor in the Department of British Literature and Culture at the University of Łódź, Poland. Her academic interests include: contemporary Scottish poetry, Native American prose and poetry, literary theory, literary criticism, and translation. She is the author of Playing Games of Sense in Edwin Morgan's Writing (Peter Lang, 2016) and coeditor of Języki (pop)kultury w literaturze, mediach i filmie (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2015). She is a member of the Association for Cultural Studies, the Association for Scottish Literary Studies, and the Polish Cognitive Linguistics Association. She is the President of the K. K. Baczyński Literary Society.
Jessika Köhler is a lecturer in English literature, specializing in Irish studies, at the University of Hamburg and the Leuphana University of Lüneburg. She is currently researching space and place in contemporary Irish poetry.
Tim Liardet is a professor of poetry at Bath Spa University, England, and a Poetry Book Society selector. Twice shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize, for The World Before Snow (Carcanet) in 2015 and The Blood Choir (Seren) in 2006, Tim Liardet has produced 10 collections of poetry to date. He has also been long‐listed for the Whitbread Poetry Prize, and has received several Poetry Book Society Recommendations, a Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice, an Arts Council England Writer's Award, a Society of Authors Award, and a Hawthornden fellowship. His most recent collection is Arcimboldo's Bulldog: New and Selected Poems (Carcanet, 2018).
Jo Lindsay Walton took his Master's degree in social and political theory at Birkbeck, and is completing a PhD in creative writing at Northumbria University on finance and speculative fiction. His publications include the novel Invocation (Critical Documents, 2013). He coedits the poetry reviews journal Hix Eros and the poetry micropress Sad Press.
David Malcolm is a professor of English at SWPS University of Humanities and Social Sciences in Warsaw. He previously taught for twenty‐eight years at the University of Gdan&c.acute;sk. He has published extensively on British and Irish fiction and poetry. His translations of Polish and German literature have been published in Europe, the UK, and the USA. He is co‐organizer of the Between.Pomiędzy Festival of Literature and Theatre which has been held annually in Sopot, Poland, since 2010.
Erik Martiny has taught Anglophone literature, art, and film in Cork, Aix‐en‐Provence, Saint‐Germain‐en‐Laye, and Paris. He currently teaches preparatory school students at the Lycée Henri‐IV in Paris. His work has focused on literature and the visual arts. His articles appear in the TLS, The London Magazine, The Wallace Stevens Journal, and The Cambridge Quarterly. His book on the poetics of filiation, Intertextualité et filiation paternelle dans la poésie anglophone, was published in 2008. He has also written on the connections between film and fiction, having edited a volume of essays, Lolita: From Nabokov to Kubrick and Lyne (Editions Sedes, 2009). He also edited A Companion to Poetic Genre. His debut novel The Pleasures of Queueing (Mastodon Publishing) came out in 2018.
Will May is a senior lecturer in English at the University of Southampton. He is the author of Stevie Smith and Authorship (OUP, 2010) and Postwar Literature: 1950–1990 (Longman, 2010), and editor of The Collected Poems and Drawings of Stevie Smith (Faber, 2015) and the essay collection Reading F. T. Prince (Liverpool UP, 2015). He is currently writing a history of whimsy in Anglo‐American poetry.
Jennifer Militello has produced three collections of poetry with Tupelo Press, A Camouflage of Specimens and Garments (2016), Body Thesaurus (2013),