Andrew Taylor

Role

Dr Taylor teaches Creative Writing and English. He teaches undergraduate and postgraduate students and supervises a number of PhD creative /critical writing candidates. He is course leader for the BA (Hons) Creative Writing programme.

Dr Taylor is a published poet, critic and an editor. He is a member of NTU’s Centre for Travel Writing Studies and a member of the NTU Critical Poetics Group. Dr Taylor is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Visit his personal website or follow him on Twitter.

Career overview

Dr Taylor previously taught at Edge Hill University where he was founder member of the Poetry and Poetics Research Group. He studied for his BA in English and MA in Creative Writing at Edge Hill University. His PhD - thesis title: A Poetry of Place, the Flâneur and Adrian Henri - was awarded by Lancaster University.

External activity

Dr Taylor is a co-editor at Liverpool based poetry journal, erbacce and its associated publishing house, erbacce-Press. (www.erbacce-press.co.uk) He is editor of the blogzine M58. Dr Taylor reviews poetry in magazines such as Orbis, The Ofi Press and The Journal.

Sponsors and collaborators

Dr Taylor has collaborated with Edward Chell, Reader in Fine Art at University for the Creative Arts, Canterbury; Welsh based artist, Julie Jones; Spanish based poet, Charlie Baylis and the musician and writer, Nick Power.