I am a poet and critic with particular research interests in the field of twentieth-century and contemporary poetry, Irish literature and Samuel Beckett, and welcome applications from prospective PhD students in these areas. My most recent poetry collection is The President of Planet Earth (Carcanet/Wake Forest UP, 2017). I have published four previous collections with Gallery Press: Thirst (1997; Rooney Prize for Irish Literature), Misery Hill (2000), Mocker (2006), and A Nest on the Waves (2010). I have also edited the Poems of James Clarence Mangan for Gallery Press (2003) and Samuel Beckett’s Selected Poems 1930-1989 for Faber and Faber (2009). My Reader’s Guide to Essential Criticism of Contemporary British Poetry is published by Palgrave in 2014. I am currently collaborating with Dr Ailbhe Darcy on the Cambridge History of Irish Women's Poetry, scheduled for publication in 2021. My work features in various anthologies, including After Ovid: New Metamorphoses (Faber/FSG, 1994), The New Irish Poets (Bloodaxe, 2004), Identity Parade: New British & Irish Poets (Bloodaxe, 2010), An Anthology of Modern Irish Poetry (Harvard UP, 2010), and The Penguin Book of Irish Poetry (2010). I was a judge for the 2015 National Poetry Competition. My critical work has appeared in numerous edited collections, including The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Poetry (2012), The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Poetry (2013), The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary British and Irish Poetry (2013), The Oxford Handbook of British and Irish War Poetry (2007), The Cambridge Companion to Seamus Heaney (2009) and The Cambridge Companion to Contemporary Irish Poetry (2003). I was a founding editor of the poetry journal Metre, and have written on poetry for a variety of other journals including London Review of Books, Times Literary Supplement, The Guardian, Poetry, New Statesman, Essays in Criticism, Times Higher Education Supplement, The Irish Times and Poetry Review.