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Robert Hampson
Robert Hampson is professor of modern literature at Royal Holloway, University of London. In addition to his work in Conrad studies (as the author of three monographs on Conrad, former editor of The Conradian, and the editor of various editions of works by Conrad), he has also been active for many decades as editor, critic and practitioner in contemporary poetry. In the 1970s, he co-edited the influential magazine Alembic; he subsequently co-edited the pioneering critical volume The New British Poetries: The Scope of the Possible (1993) and more recently co-edited Frank O’Hara Now (2010) and Clasp: Late Modernist Poetry in London in the 1970s (2016). His poetry publications include Assembled Fugitives: Selected Poems 1973-1998 (2001) and, more recently, Seaport (2008), An Explanation of Colours (2010) and Reworked Disasters (2013), which was longlisted for the Forward Prize.