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

Jo Lindsay Waltontook 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 Malcolmis 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 Martinyhas 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 Mayis 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 Militellohas produced three collections of poetry with Tupelo Press, A Camouflage of Specimens and Garments (2016), Body Thesaurus (2013), named a finalist for the Alice Fay di Castagnola 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 Poréeis 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 Pursgloveretired 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 Reganis 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 Riachis 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 Rumseyis 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 Ryleis 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 Calleis 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 Sparrowis 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.