Sean Elliott (1965-2016)

Sean Elliott grew up in Dawlish in Devon and taught Creative Writing with the Open University and for Birkbeck College in London.  He gained his doctorate from Goldsmiths College in 1995 with a thesis on Robert Lowell.  In 2001, he was shortlisted by for the Poetry Society’s Geoffrey Dearmer Prize for the most promising new poet.  He has published widely as a poet, essayist (chiefly on contemporary poetry and poetics) and short story writer.  He lived in Margate in an old house which does not have a single rectangular room. His first poetry collection, Waterhouse and the Tempest, was published by Acumen in 2009 (ISBN 978-1-8731612-2-7) and is available from the publisher and Foyles Bookshop.

poetry favourites:
 Acumen;
Poetry Society;
Poetry at the Troubadour 

and in the shop ...
collections -
"The Status of the Cat",
Playdead Press;

"Waterhouse
and the
Tempest",
Acumen

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