Professor John Redmond D. Phil

Personal Statement

Prof. John Redmond works in the Department of English. He is a published poet, with three collections - Thumb's Width (Carcanet: 2001), MUDe (Carcanet: 2008) and The Alexandra Sequence (Carcanet, 2016). He has published a critical book on contemporary poetry, Poetry and Privacy (Seren: 2013). He is also the author of a Creative Writing textbook, How to Write a Poem (Blackwell: 2005) and the editor of James Liddy: Selected Poems (Arlen House: 2011).
He is the Chair of the School Extenuating Circumstances Committee and a member of the Centre for New and International Writing.
Hi is acting PG Lead and Director of the English Literature M. A. (January 2024-August 2024)
He is currently writing a novel and a book of poems.
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