Grevel Lindop was born in Liverpool and educated at Oxford. One of Carcanet's first authors, he has published six previous collections of poems with Carcanet, and has been a winner of the Poetry Life, Poetry London, Stafford, and Kent and Sussex Poetry Prizes. His prose books include biographies of De Quincey and Charles Williams, and Travels on the Dance Floor, which was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week, and shortlisted as Authors' Club Best Travel Book of its year. He was Professor of Romantic and Early Victorian Studies at Manchester University, and has held visiting appointments at St John's College, Oxford, and Girton College, Cambridge. He lives in Manchester and is married, with three children and seven grandchildren.
