Grevel Charles Garrett Lindop (born 6 October 1948) is an English poet, academic and literary critic.

Life

Lindop was born in

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to solicitor John Neale Lindop, LL.M. and Winifred (née Garrett), and educated at

Liverpool College Liverpool College is a school in Mossley Hill, Liverpool, England. It was one of the thirteen founding members of the Headmasters' Conference (HMC). History Liverpool College was the first of many public schools founded in the Victorian ...

, then

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, where he read English, taking an

M.A. A Master of Arts ( la, Magister Artium or ''Artium Magister''; abbreviated MA, M.A., AM, or A.M.) is the holder of a master's degree awarded by universities in many countries. The degree is usually contrasted with that of Master of Science. Tho ...

(B.A. 1970) and

Bachelor of Letters Bachelor of Letters (BLitt or LittB; Latin ' or ') is a second undergraduate university degree in which students specialize in an area of study relevant to their own personal, professional, or academic development. This area of study may have been t ...

. After two years of postgraduate research at Wadham and Wolfson Colleges, Oxford, he moved to

Chorlton-cum-Hardy Chorlton-cum-Hardy is a suburban area of Manchester, England, southwest of the city centre. Chorlton ward had a population of 14,138 at the 2011 census, and Chorlton Park 15,147. By the 9th century, there was an Anglo-Saxon settlement her ...

, Manchester, finishing his Ph.D at the

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and becoming a lecturer there in 1971. He became a senior lecturer in 1984, reader in English Literature in 1993, and Professor of Romantic and Early Victorian Studies from 1996 to 2001. Lindop began writing poetry when at Oxford, working with Michael Schmidt, a fellow undergraduate, to co-edit ''

Carcanet Carcanet Press is a publisher, primarily of poetry, based in the United Kingdom and founded in 1969 by Michael Schmidt. In 2000 it was named the '' Sunday Times'' millennium Small Publisher of the Year. History ''Carcanet'' was originally a li ...

'' (the magazine, only later a publishing house). Lindop is a frequent contributor to the ''

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'', reviewing poetry, biography, fiction, exhibitions and theatre. He also writes essays and reviews for a range of magazines including ''The London Magazine'', ''Stand'', ''

PN Review Launched as ''Poetry Nation'', a twice-yearly hardback, in 1973, ''PN Review'' - now an A4 paperback - began quarterly publication in 1976 and has appeared six times a year since 1981 (PN Review 21). Two hundred and twenty-five issues of the magaz ...

'', ''Poetry London'' and '' Temenos Academy Review''. As a director of the

Temenos Academy The Temenos Academy, or Temenos Academy of Integral Studies, is an educational charity in London which aims to offer education in philosophy and the arts in what it calls "the light of the sacred traditions of East and West". The academy's bac ...

from 2000 to 2003, Lindop held the post of editor at ''Temenos Academy Review''. He is also a fellow of the

Wordsworth Trust The Wordsworth Trust is an independent charity in the United Kingdom. It celebrates the life of the poet William Wordsworth, and looks after Dove Cottage in the Lake District village of Grasmere where Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy Wordswor ...

. He and his wife, Amanda Therese Marian (née Cox), live at Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester. They have a son and two daughters.

Publications

When Carcanet Press began publishing pamphlets Lindop's ''Against the Sea'' was among the earliest ones published. His first full-length collection of poems, ''Fools' Paradise'', was published in 1977. Five other collections have been published since: ''Tourists'' (1987), ''A Prismatic Toy'' (1991), ''Selected Poems'' (2000). Lindop's most recent collection ''Playing With Fire'', was published by Carcanet Press in 2006.Carcanet Press – Playing with Fire
/ref> Lindop wrote a biography of

Thomas De Quincey Thomas Penson De Quincey (; 15 August 17858 December 1859) was an English writer, essayist, and literary critic, best known for his '' Confessions of an English Opium-Eater'' (1821). Many scholars suggest that in publishing this work De Quinc ...

which was published in 1981 as ''The Opium-Eater: a Life of Thomas De Quincey''. He also edited De Quincey's ''Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and Other Writings'' for the ''Oxford World's Classics'' series in 1985, and was General Editor of ''The Works of Thomas De Quincey'', a 21-volume complete edition of his writings, produced by a team of eleven editors and published in 2000–03. Sigma Press published Lindop's ''A Literary Guide to the Lake District'' in 1993 (3rd ed, 2015: ). The guide to the area's literary connections won the

Lakeland Book of the Year The Lakeland Book of the Year, also known as the Hunter Davies Lakeland Book of the Year is an award given annually for a book "set in or featuring Cumbria in some way", and is named for the Lake District of north west England. It was founded by w ...

award in 1994. In 2008, André Deutsch published ''Travels on the Dance Floor'' () (third edition 2010), Lindop's account of his 6-week journey to Cuba, Venezuela, Colombia, Panama, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, and Miami in search of the roots of

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References

External links

An article reviewing Lindop's poetry in the ''Reader Online''
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