I am originally from Tynemouth in the north-east of England. I came to Birmingham in 2016, having studied and taught at the University of Durham.

I’ve written a book about nineteenth century lyric, and a guide to reading poems, as well as a number of chapters and essays on poets in English from Shakespeare onward.

At the moment I am editing a number of volumes: an Oxford World’s Classics edition of Thomas Lovell Beddoes’s Death’s Jest-Book and Other Writings, Oxford Handbooks of William Cowper (with Jessica Fay, Birmingham) and Romantic Poetry (with Matthew Scott, Reading), and (with Will Bowers (QMUL) and Oliver Clarkson (Oxford)) a new three-volume edition of The Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley for Oxford University Press.