My book The Alvarez Generation: Thom Gunn, Geoffrey Hill, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath and Peter Porter (Liverpool University Press, 2015) is on the generation of poets who succeeded the Movement.  I have also published on the neo-romantics (Dylan Thomas, Vernon Watkins, George Barker and W.S. Graham), Edward Thomas, Rupert Brooke and Philip Larkin, David Jones, Basil Bunting, and Roy Fisher.  I have researched into the history of Penguin books, co-editing and contributing to Reading Penguin (Cambridge Scholars 2013).  I have also been a frequent book reviewer for publications including the Guardian, the London Review of Books, Poetry Review and the Times Literary Supplement. Poems of mine have appeared in magazines including New Walk, PN Review, Poetry Review, Rialto the Spectator and the Times Literary Supplement. 

I would be interested in proposals relating to any of the topics mentioned above, to twentieth century poetry more widely, and to creative writing.  I particularly welcome critical and creative proposals showing a strong interest in poetic form, especially metre.