Editing etc

I’ve founded two literary ‘little magazines’. Orient Express: contemporary writing from enlargement Europe (2002-5) published new prose and poetry from post-communist Europe. Poem: international English language quarterly (Taylor and Francis, 2013-8) published poetry from around the world, often in translation. From 2005-12 I edited Poetry Review (Poetry Society of GB). I’m currently poetry editor of the New Humanist, and serve on the boards of periodicals and publishing houses in the UK and Europe.

As well as in the specialist press, I review for Guardian, Independent, New Statesman, Telegraph, Spectator, Irish Times, Sunday Times, Tablet, TLS, Aeon, The New York Times, BBC R3 & 4

It’s always exciting to contribute introductions and chapters to books academic or literary. Here are a few examples:

‘Introduction’ in Mary Shelley in Bath Manderley Press, 2025

‘The Waste Land: Meaning and Multiplicity’ in Viorica Patea The Waste Land: a hundred years later, Unversidad de La Laguna, Canaries, 2022

‘Sylvia Plath’s Literary Legacy’ in Tracey Brain, Sylvia Plath in Context Cambridge University Press 2019

‘Ted Hughes’s Literary Legacy’ in Terry Gifford Ted Hughes in Context Cambridge University Press 2018

‘Introduction’ in Mary Shelley Horror Stories Flame-tree Publishing 2018

‘About Time’ in Tim Dee, Groundwork Jonathan Cape 2018

‘Creative Translation’ in David Morley and Philip Neilsen The Cambridge Companion to Creative Writing Cambridge University Press 2012

Practical Measures: Poet as Editor’ in Joan Swann, Robert Pope and Ronald Carter Creativity in Language: The state of the art Palgrave 2011

‘Orient Express & UK Print Publication of Poetry in Translation’ in Anna Gacs The Culture of Periodicals from the Perspective of the Electronic Age L’Harmattan 2008

‘Writing as “Therapy”’ in Steve Earnshaw The Handbook of Creative Writing Edinburgh University Press 2007

‘A world we had forgotten we knew, Johann Julian Taupe’ in J.J. Taupe Weltenbilder Ritter 2006