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Dr Andrew Taylor is a Lecturer in English and Creative Writing, with specialist interests in experimental poetry; so-called ‘linguistically innovative’ poetry, the Beat Generation and the Welsh poet, Peter Finch. His current research concerns the work and practice of the Liverpool poet and artist Adrian Henri, following on from his PhD thesis, “A Poetry of Place, the Flâneur and Adrian Henri” (Lancaster University). The poetics of place and travel also influence Dr Taylor’s own poetry. Robert Sheppard describes his debut collection, Radio Mast Horizon (Shearsman Books, 2013), as being ‘firmly located in terms of time and space (and often place)’, while Cliff Yates similarly concludes that it ‘travels well’, recommending that it be read ‘on the train, in a hotel room, at the bus stop sheltering from the rain’. Dr Taylor recently co-edited In the Company of Ghosts, the Poetics of the Motorway (Erbacce, 2012) with artist Edward Chell, which brings together the responses of artists, poets, writers and thinkers to the motorway, its effect on the landscape and our perception thereof. Further information about his publications can be found at http://www.andrewtaylorpoetry.com/.
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