Dr Dai George

• BA English and Philosophy, University of Bristol
• MFA Creative Writing, Columbia University (USA)
• PhD English Language and Literature, University College London

I am a poet, critic and novelist from Cardiff. My first poetry collection, The Claims Office, was an Evening Standard book of the year and my second, Karaoke King, was published by Seren in June 2021. My poetry and criticism has appeared widely in magazines and anthologies, including Poetry Review, Poetry Wales, The White Review, Cambridge Quarterly and Islands Are But Mountains: New Poetry from the United Kingdom. My first novel, The Counterplot, is available as an Audible Original, and I am currently working on a general audience nonfiction book about poetry called How to Think Like a Poet. From 2018 to 2022, I worked as Reviews Editor for Poetry London.

Prior to starting at the University of Birmingham, I taught English Literature at University College London and Creative Writing at Swansea University. Academic articles and chapters have appeared or are forthcoming in the Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry, Teaching Poetry and Poetics (Palgrave, 2023) and The Palgrave Companion to 21^st Century British Poetry (Palgrave, 2024).

Undergraduate
First year:

• Creative Writing Foundation A
• Creative Writing Foundation B
• Discovering Creative Practice A

Second year:

• Drama and Media Writing
• Editing

Third year:

• Creative Writing Project Supervisions

MA

• Writer’s Workshop

My PhD thesis was titled Kicked Around Anew: 20^th- Century Poetry and the Battle over Syntax, and this engagement with questions of poetry, syntax and stylistics continues to inform my research. Other general areas of interest include transatlantic poetry culture, poetries of the Black Atlantic, creative writing pedagogy, poetry and cognition, and Welsh poetry. I am at work on a chapter on Welsh poetry for the Palgrave Companion to 21^st-Century British Poetry, and my first full-length nonfiction book, How to Think Like a Poet, is forthcoming from Bloomsbury Continuum in 2024.