My research has dealt with poetic allusion, imitation and influence, covering poets from the early modern period to the present day.
The central chapters of The Later Affluence of W. B. Yeats and Wallace Stevens (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) focus on four late poems by Yeats and Stevens to explore how these poets correspond with Shakespeare, Milton, and various Romantic poets. The Vagabond Spirit of Poetry (Iff Books, 2014) makes claims for the efficacy of poems in our world today, drawing on a range of writers from Shakespeare through to Yeats and Stevens. My selection of poems by Henry Vaughan and George Herbert is called Divine Themes and Celestial Praise and was published by SLG Press in 2023. The Secret Mind of Art (Angelico Press, 2023) considers the mysteries of western art and architecture, taking its cues from Yeats’s ‘Under Ben Bulben’ and A Vision.
A Book of Psalms (Paraclete Press, 2020) contains 150 poems of mine in conversation with the Psalms. My collection, Cherubims (Kelsay Books, 2022), presents poems rooted in my family life. A selection of my poetry, The Voice inside Our Home, was published by SLG Press in 2022. My poems have also appeared in numerous newspapers, journals, and magazines, including The Spectator, Clutag, and Spiritus. You can find critical essays on my poetry and reviews in Susan Gillingham’s Psalms Through the Centuries, Volume 3 (Blackwell’s, 2022), Psalms and the Use of the Critical Imagination, edited by Katherine E. Southwood (T&T Clark, 2022), and the journal Theology, among other places.
At the Department for Continuing Education I teach on the Undergraduate Certificate in English Literature, the Undergraduate Diploma in Creative Writing, the weekly learning programmes, and various summer schools.
