Dr Luke Roberts

Biography

"I joined King’s in September 2016 as Lecturer in Modern Poetry, after studying at the University of Cambridge (BA, PhD) and Birkbeck College (MA). My research focuses on 20th and 21st Century poetry, and the relationship between poetry, political commitment, and social history. I recently completed a monograph on the work of Barry MacSweeney, and I’m currently trying to think more broadly about poetry and the State, beginning with prisons and the police. I’m also interested in archival and bibliographic research. In 2012 I co-edited Certain Prose of the English Intelligencer, which reprinted some of the arguments about poetry and poetics going on in Cambridge (and further afield) in the 1960s. I remain devoted to little magazines and other ephemeral documents of triumph and failure. My own poetry has been published in the UK and the USA by independent presses. "

Research Interest

"Poetry and left-wing politics; Poetry and psychoanalysis/feminism/queer theory/ Marxism; Bibliographic and textual history"