Prof. John Redmond works in the Department of English at the University of Liverpool. He is a published poet, with three collections - Thumb's Width (Carcanet: 2001) - the first poetry book to be longlisted for The Guardian First Book Award, 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).