I am a poet and literary critic working mainly on Shakespeare and early modern poetry, though I have strong secondary interests in Old English verse, in Romanticism (especially Wordsworth), and in British, Irish, and American poetry of the twentieth century. As an undergraduate I read English and Creative Writing at the University of Hull, where I spent a semester at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and received the Philip Larkin Prize. From there I went on to a Creative Writing MSt at the University of Oxford, where I edited the poetry journal Ash, co-edited the Oxford–Cambridge magazine The Mays, and convened the English Faculty’s Poetry Reading Group; I then spent a number of years working as an academic librarian. Before joining the Shakespeare Institute, I was research assistant to Simon Armitage during his tenure as Oxford Professor of Poetry, and later the textual editor of his ensuing book of lectures, A Vertical Art (Faber and Faber, 2021). I am the chief editor of the forthcoming Touchstone Shakespeare reference app, and am due to complete the New Selected Poems of William Wordsworth (Sandspout, 2022) in the coming months; I sometimes also work freelance as a manuscript consultant, proofreader, and copyeditor. I have previously trained in palaeography, historical bibliography, Old English, and a number of other ‘satellite’ fields. My own poetry, criticism, and journalism have appeared in Ambit, the New Statesman, PN Review, the Spectator, the Times Literary Supplement, and elsewhere, and I am currently preparing my first collection of poems.