A Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Poetry, 1960 - 2015

David Fulleris emeritus professor of English and former chairman of the Department of English Studies at the University of Durham. From 2002 to 2007, he was also the university's public orator. He has held a University of Durham Sir Derman Christopherson fellowship, and fellowships at the Huntington Library, the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies of the University of Toronto, and the Yale Center for British Art. He is the author of Blake's Heroic Argument (Croom Helm, 1988), James Joyce's “Ulysses” (Harvester, 1992), Signs of Grace (with David Brown, Cassell, 1995), and essays on a wide range of poetry, drama, and novels from Medieval to Modern, including work on Chaucer, Spenser, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Blake, Shelley, Keats, T. S. Eliot, William Empson, and the theory and practice of criticism.

Wolfgang Görtschacher, senior assistant professor at the University of Salzburg, is the author of Little Magazine Profiles: The Little Magazines in Great Britain, 1939–1993 (1993) and Contemporary Views on the Little Magazine Scene (2000), owner‐director of the small press Poetry Salzburg, editor of the little magazine Poetry Salzburg Review , coeditor of the academic journal Moderne Sprachen , and the President of AAUTE (Austrian Association of University Teachers of English). He (co)edited So Also Ist Das/So That's What It's Like: Eine zweisprachige Anthologie britischer Gegenwartslyrik (2002), 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‐Blaimis 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 Grzegorzewskais 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 Hampsonis 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 Hertelis 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 Hughesis 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 Hühnwas 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 Jarniewiczis 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 Kennedywas 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 Kocotis 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 Köhleris 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 Liardetis 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).