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 SOTA Assessment and Feedback Coordinator and a member of the Centre for New and International Writing.
He is currently writing a novel and a book of poems.
Academic Support and Feedback Hours: Wednesday 2.00-3.00 + Wednesday 3.00-4.00.

Research Overview
My poetry criticism mainly focuses on anglophone poets (Irish, British, and American) from the 1930s to the present. I have a particular interest in the interface between poetry and various cultural forms/practices e.g. virtual worlds, folk drama (especially mumming), and food (gastro-criticism).