This week we welcome Todd Swift as our guest blogger. Todd was born in Montreal and grew
up
in St-Lambert, Quebec and lives in London, England.
Swift was poetry editor of award-winning on-line magazine Nthposition
from 2003 to 2008. He has edited many anthologies, including
100 Poets Against The War (Salt, UK, 2003) and
special sections on new Canadian poetry for New American Writing,
and
The London Magazine, and on young British and Scottish poets,
for
The Manhattan Review. Swift has published several volumes of poetry, most recently Seaway: New and Selected Poems (2008) and Mainstream Love Hotel (2009). His poems
have appeared in Books
In
Canada, The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, Jacket, Poetry London, Poetry
Review, Stand, and elsewhere. The Chronicle of Higher Education has
compared
his work to "that of Ezra Pound's in the 10s and 20s of the last
century, in
Paris and London". He has been Oxfam Great
Britain's
Poet-in-residence since 2004, and edited several poetry CDs and a DVD
for them. Todd has an MA in Creative
Writing
from the University of East Anglia. Forthcoming publications include
Modern Poets of Canada (co-edited with Evan Jones. Carcanet). Todd is a a Core Tutor with the Poetry School and a lecturer at Kingston
University.
He blogs over at Eyewear.
Welcome, Todd.
