A Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Poetry, 1960 - 2015. Группа авторов
Award by Marilyn Hacker, and Flinch of Song (2009), winner of the Tupelo Press First Book Award, as well as the chapbook Anchor Chain, Open Sail (Finishing Line, 2006). Her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, The New Republic, and The Paris Review. She teaches in the MFA program at New England College.
Alex Pestell's study Geoffrey Hill: The Drama of Reason was published by Peter Lang in 2016. He has edited John Wilkinson's Schedule of Unrest: Selected Poems (Salt, 2014) and written on Pound, Williams, Bunting, and Zukofsky. He lives in Berlin.
Marc Porée is professor of English literature at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris (PSL). As a romanticist, he has published numerous articles and chapters on the major Romantic poets. He also writes on British contemporary fiction and/or poetry and translates from English into French (Lord Byron, Joseph Conrad, Thomas de Quincey, Ann Radcliffe, R. L. Stevenson), chiefly for Gallimard. He occasionally contributes to the online review En Attendant Nadeau.
Glyn Pursglove retired from his position as a reader in English at Swansea University in 2015. He has published many books and articles on English poetry from the seventeenth century to the present. His most recent book was Oro Espanõl: Traducciones Inglesas de Poesía Espanõla de los Siglos Diecisés y Diecisiete (Ediciones Universidad de Valladolid, 2014).
Stephen Regan is professor of English at Durham University, where he is also the Director of the Centre for Poetry and Poetics. He is the author of two books on Philip Larkin, and he has written extensively on the work of W. B. Yeats, Seamus Heaney, and other Irish poets. His essays on modern poetry have appeared in The Cambridge History of English Poetry (2010), The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth‐Century English Poetry (2008), and The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Poetry (2012). He is editor of Irish Writing: An Anthology of Irish Literature in English 1789–1939 (Oxford UP, 2004), and also edited the new Oxford World's Classics edition of George Moore's Esther Waters (Oxford UP, 2012).
Alan Riach is professor of Scottish literature at Glasgow University, general editor of the collected works of Hugh MacDiarmid, author of Representing Scotland in Literature, Popular Culture and Iconography (2004) and coauthor of Arts of Resistance: Poets, Portraits and Landscapes of Modern Scotland (2009), described by the Times Literary Supplement as “a landmark book,” Arts of Independence: The Cultural Argument and Why It Matters Most (2014), and Arts and the Nation (2017). His books of poems include Homecoming (2009) and The Winter Book (both Luath Press, 2017).
Lacy Rumsey is associate professor of English at the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon. He has published extensively on British and American poetry, with a particular focus on rhythm. Recent essays include a reassessment of the free‐verse prosody of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass, an analysis of the meters of Louis MacNeice's The Burning Perch, and studies of contemporary British poets R. F. Langley and Jeff Hilson. He is currently completing a book on the prosody of free verse.
Martin Ryle is emeritus reader in English at the University of Sussex. His research interests include twentieth‐century Irish writing in English, and he has published articles on Paul Muldoon, John McGahern, and Derek Mahon. He is a member of the editorial advisory board of Green Letters.
Pilar Sánchez Calle is senior lecturer of English and American Literature at the University of Jaén, Spain. Her research focuses on contemporary English and North American literature, with special emphasis on the representation of gender, identity, and exile. Some of her publications include “No City of God: Urban Images in the Fiction of Nella Larsen and Jessie Fauset,” “Private Dreams, Public Realities: An Analysis of Female Characters in Ronald Firbank's The Flower Beneath the Foot,” and “The Artist as a Mongrel Girl: Mina Loy's Anglo‐Mongrels and the Rose.”
Robert Sheppard's two main literary critical works are The Poetry of Saying (Liverpool UP, 2005) and The Meaning of Form in Contemporary Innovative Poetry (Palgrave, 2016), though he has written a monograph on Iain Sinclair and edited a companion to the work of Lee Harwood. His poetry is partly collected in Complete Twentieth Century Blues (Salt, 2008) and selected in History or Sleep (2015), from Shearsman, who publish other works, including the collaboratively written volume of fictional poetry, Twitters for a Lark: Poetry of the European Union of Imaginary Authors (2017). He lives and writes in Liverpool, United Kingdom, and is emeritus professor of poetry and poetics at Edge Hill University.
John Sparrow is a poet and digital artist. He is interested in materiality and the use of forms as rhetorical devices, particularly as they relate to live performance, modular and reflexive writing, and generative texts. He likes to explore texts whose compositions are affected by external influences, and allow for chance and random processes to infiltrate the writing process. He is currently completing a PhD in generative digital poetics. He lives in Phoenix, Arizona, with his wife and cats.
Eleanor Spencer teaches in the Department of English Studies at Durham University, where she is also Vice Principal and senior tutor at St. Chad's College. She was previously a Frank Knox Memorial fellow at Harvard University, and is the editor of the New Casebooks on American Poetry since 1945 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017).
Monika Szuba is lecturer in English literature at the University of Gdańsk, Poland. Her research, which mainly focuses on twentieth and twenty‐first century poetry, is informed by environmental humanities and phenomenological perspectives. She is the editor of Boundless Scotland: Space in Scottish Fiction (University of Gdańsk Press, 2015) and coeditor, with Julian Wolfreys, of The Poetics of Space and Place in Scottish Literature (Palgrave, 2019). She is the author of Contemporary Scottish Poetry and the Natural World: Burnside, Jamie, Robertson and White (Edinburgh UP, 2020).
Scott Thurston is reader in English and creative writing at the University of Salford. A poet and critic, he has written several volumes of poetry and published widely on innovative writing. He edited The Salt Companion to Geraldine Monk (2007) and compiled a book of interviews with innovative poets called Talking Poetics (Shearsman Books, 2011). Thurston also coedits the Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry and co‐organizes The Other Room poetry reading series in Manchester.
Juha Virtanen is lecturer in contemporary literature at the University of Kent. His monograph, Poetry and Performance During the British Poetry Revival 1960–1980: Event and Effect, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2017. His own poetry publications include Back Channel Apraxia (Contraband, 2014) and –LAND (Oystercatcher Press, 2016). He coedits DATABLEED together with Eleanor Perry.
Jean Ward is an associate professor at the Institute of English and American Studies of Gdańsk University, Poland. She specializes in religious poetry, is the author of Christian Poetry in the Post‐Christian Day: Geoffrey Hill, R. S. Thomas, Elizabeth Jennings (Peter Lang, 2009), has contributed to collections of critical essays both in English and in Polish, on Jennings's poetics and her relationship with other poets, including George Herbert, G. M. Hopkins, T. S. Eliot, and David Jones.
Daniel Weston is senior lecturer of English literature at the University of Greenwich. His monograph, Contemporary Literary Landscapes: The Poetics of Experience, was published by Ashgate in 2017. He has published work on modern and contemporary poetry, prose fiction, and non‐fiction, with particular emphasis on literary geographies and place writing.
David Wheatley is a reader in English and creative writing at the University of Aberdeen. He is the author of six collections of poetry, including The President of Planet Earth (Carcanet, 2017), and the author of the critical study Contemporary British Poetry (Palgrave, 2014). He has also edited the poetry of James Clarence Mangan (2003) and of Samuel Beckett (2009), for Gallery Press and Faber and Faber, respectively.
Tomasz Wiśniewski was for several years the Deputy Director for Research in the Institute of English and American Studies