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Project Leader:
Professor Peter Barry<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Peter Barry<\/strong><\/a> is Professor of English at Aberystwyth University. His background is Liverpool-Irish, ex-Catholic, and he has taught at every level of education, from primary school to university. He studied at King\u2019s College, London, and at London University\u2019s Institute of United States Studies.\u00a0His books include\u00a0Contemporary British Poetry and the City<\/em>\u00a0(2000),\u00a0Beginning Theory<\/em>\u00a0(1995, 2002, 2009),\u00a0English in Practice<\/em>\u00a0(2003),\u00a0Poetry Wars: British Poetry of the 1970s and the Battle of Earls Court<\/em>\u00a0(2006), and\u00a0Literature in Contexts<\/em>\u00a0(2007). His forthcoming publications include the monographs\u00a0Reading Poetry<\/em>(Manchester University Press, 2012) and\u00a0Continuing Theory<\/em>\u00a0(Routledge, 2014). He is also editing a volume on Contemporary Poetry for the Continuum Companions Series. He recently published \u2018Upholland Poems\u2019, a sequence of twelve poems, in\u00a0Kaleidoscope: an anthology of sequences<\/em>, (Cinnamon Press, 2011).<\/p>\n

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Research Assistant:
Dr Matthew Jarvis<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Dr Matthew Jarvis<\/strong><\/a> is a writer and critic. His scholarship focuses on English-language poetry in Wales since the 1960s and on British avant-garde poetry of the same period. He is particularly interested in environmental approaches to literature and in ideas about the literary construction of Welsh space and place. His work has been described as \u2018pioneering criticism\u2019 by Professor Jeremy Hooker. He has written the books\u00a0Welsh Environments in Contemporary Poetry<\/em>\u00a0(UWP, 2008) and\u00a0Ruth Bidgood<\/em>\u00a0(UWP, 2012). A volume of his collected essays will be published by Parthian in 2014. Full details of Matthew\u2019s work can be found on\u00a0his personal website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Research Assistant:
Kathryn Gray<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Kathryn Gray<\/strong> <\/a>is a poet, critic and editor. Her debut collection from Seren,\u00a0The Never-Never<\/em>\u00a0(2004), was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. Recent work includes an artists\u2019 book in collaboration with Mary Modeen, Uncertain Territories<\/em>, which was exhibited in the Royal Scottish Academy and the Scottish Poetry Library. Kathryn was editor of Wales\u2019 leading literary quarterly,\u00a0New Welsh Review<\/em>, from 2008 to 2011, and was publishing editor for Parthian Books from 2011 to 2012. Her poems, reviews and critical features have been widely published in noted journals, including\u00a0The TLS<\/em>,\u00a0The Independent<\/em>,\u00a0Poetry Review<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Poetry Wales<\/em>. She has taught for the Arvon Foundation and the Poetry School, and is a Director of Literature Wales and a trustee of T\u0177 Newydd, the National Writers\u2019 Centre of Wales.<\/p>\n

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PhD Student:
Bronwen Williams<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Bronwen Williams<\/strong> has returned to academia from a career in the funded arts sector as a local authority literature development officer; Literature Officer in Arts Council England, North West region;\u00a0 Literature Adviser\/Consultant to the Irish Arts Council \/ An Chomhairle Ealaion; and as Literature Adviser to the Scottish Arts Council\u2019s Publications Panel.\u00a0 A graduate of Queen\u2019s University, Belfast, she completed her MA dissertation on the work of poet Ivor Gurney at the University of Manchester. She has taught in community, further and higher education and has worked in a range of arts organisations including, most recently, the Northern Ireland Theatre Association, Publishing Northern Ireland, and as volunteer Chair of the recently formed Literature Forum of Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n

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