Robert Hampson Editor & Author

Robert Hampson was Professor of Modern Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London, and is now a Research Fellow in the Institute for English Studies, University of London, where he co-organises the Contemporary Innovative Poetry Research Seminar (with Amy Evans Bauer). His publications include New British poetries: The Scope of the Possible (Manchester University Press, 1993), with Peter Barry; Frank O’Hara Now (Liverpool University Press, 2010) with Will Montgomery; and Clasp: late modernist poetry in London in the 1970s (Shearsman, 2016) with Ken Edwards. His own poetry publications include Seaport (Shearsman, 2008), an explanation of colours (Veer, 2010), and re-worked disasters (kfs, 2012), which was long-listed for the Forward Prize.