Professor Gregory Leadbetter
Professor of Poetry, Course Director of the MA in Creative Writing, Director of the Institute of Creative and Critical Writing
School of English
- Email:
- gregory.leadbetter@bcu.ac.uk
Professor Gregory Leadbetter is a poet and critic. His research focuses on Romantic poetry and thought, the traditions to which these relate, and the history and practice of poetry more generally.
He is the author of two poetry collections, Maskwork (2020) and The Fetch (2016), both with Nine Arches Press, as well as the pamphlet The Body in the Well (HappenStance Press, 2007), and (with photographs by Phil Thomson) Balanuve (Broken Sleep, 2021).
His book Coleridge and the Daemonic Imagination (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011) won the University English Book Prize 2012.
As Director of the Institute of Creative and Critical Writing in the School of English, Greg leads our programme of guest seminars and masterclasses with authors, critics, editors, and agents for our students, together with a programme of public literary events every year.
Areas of Expertise
- Romantic, nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature in English, especially poetry
- Contemporary poetry in English
- The history of poetry
- The transnatural and supernatural in poetry and other literature
- Post-religious spirituality in poetry and other literature
- Nature writing and ecopoetry
- Myth and mythopoetics
- The intersection of law, philosophy, and literature
- European intellectual history
- Creative-critical practice and pedagogy
- Creative writing
Qualifications
- PhD English Literature: ‘Coleridge’s Transnatural Poetics’ – Oxford Brookes University (Research Studentship)
- Certificate in Associate Teaching in Higher Education, Oxford Brookes University
- MA Creative and Life Writing – Goldsmiths, London
- Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales (non-practising)
- Diploma in Legal Practice, The College of Law, Chester
- MA (Cantab) Law - Trinity College, Cambridge
Memberships
- Trustee and Vice-Chair of The Friends of Coleridge (2009-present)
- Board of Trustees, Artistic Policy and Finance Sub-Committees, Writing West Midlands (2013-present)
- Trustee (2013-17) and Hon. Treasurer (2014-16) of the Wordsworth Conference Foundation
- Board of Trustees and Programming Sub-Committee, Wenlock Poetry Festival (2013-16)
- The Ted Hughes Society
- Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
- British Association for Romantic Studies
- National Association of Writers in Education
- The Wordsworth-Coleridge Association (USA)
- University English
- The European Society for the Study of English
- The Society of Authors
- The Law Society of England and Wales
Teaching
Poetry; English literature, especially Romantic poetry and thought; audio drama; literature and the environment; creative writing.
Research
- Romantic, nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature in English, especially poetry
- Contemporary poetry in English
- The history of poetry
- The transnatural and supernatural in poetry and other literature
- Post-religious spirituality in poetry and other literature
- Nature writing and ecopoetry
- Myth and mythopoetics
- The intersection of law, philosophy, and literature
- European intellectual history
- Creative-critical practice and pedagogy
- Creative writing
Greg’s monograph Coleridge and the Daemonic Imagination (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011) won the University English Book Prize 2012, and established him as a pre-eminent scholar in the field. The book presents a comprehensive and radical new reading of Coleridge’s rich and notoriously complex body of work, based upon the seminal drama it discovers at the heart of his poetry and philosophy, and its signature embodiment in the daemonic figure. In developing this reading, the book explores afresh the relationship between politics, metaphysics and religion in the 1790s and beyond; the dilemmas of organicism; the role of the will in poetry and philosophy; Coleridge’s relationship to Wordsworth; Coleridge’s philosophy of language; contesting ideas of ‘nature’; ‘reason’ and the idea of the Fall in Coleridge’s reading of theology, mythology and poetry; and the form, content and purpose of poetry in relation to the supernatural. Coleridge and the Daemonic Imagination has been described as ‘a subtle and erudite meditation on Coleridge’s poetry, making frequently brilliant connections with his notebooks, essays, and letters’ (Richard Holmes, biographer of Coleridge and author of The Age of Wonder); ‘a new way into Coleridge ... a compelling and encompassing account of a powerfully heterodoxical mind’ (Professor Seamus Perry, Balliol College, Oxford); and ‘an exciting book and necessary not only for readers of Coleridge and Wordsworth but also for anyone interested in how poetry is made’ (Professor J.C.C. Mays, University College, Dublin, Bollingen editor of Coleridge's complete Poetical Works). Following the prize and international recognition of the book’s achievement, Greg was nominated by University English to be the United Kingdom plenary lecturer for the European Society for the Study of English Conference 2014 in Košice, Slovakia, on the basis that his work is ‘a most excellent representative of current and cutting-edge British scholarship’.
Greg is currently working on two further monographs that extend his ground-breaking work on Coleridge: the first on the relation between poetry, nature, and the transnatural, and the second on the ways in which Coleridge’s philosophical engagement with religion exceeds its nominally Christian context, and articulates its principles in language that anticipates a post-religious basis for their authority. A third monograph currently in preparation – at once a credo and manifesto – sets out Greg’s pioneering thinking on poetry and the transnatural in relation to the reading and writing of poetry today.
Greg’s recent essays include studies of the wild in Coleridge’s poetry and thought; poetry, walking, and landscape; Byron’s influence on British poetry since 1945; the poetics of Coleridge’s letters; the relationship between poetry, fiction and truth; Ted Hughes and shamanism; Keats, the Hunt circle and the ‘Cockney School’; the comic imagination in Charles Lamb and Coleridge; the lyric impulse in Wordsworth’s Poems, in Two Volumes; entries on ‘Moon’, ‘Oracle’, and ‘Nature’ for the Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception; the relationship between poetry and criticism in the work of Ted Hughes; and the first ever published close reading of Coleridge’s largely unknown poem, ‘Orpheus’.
Greg’s work as a poet – with its distinctive focus on auricular form and the imaginative fusion of the sensuous and the numinous, the lyric and the mythic, the natural and the transnatural – has achieved international recognition and acclaim. His collection Maskwork (Nine Arches Press, 2020) was described by novelist Jim Crace as ‘a masterclass in artistry and gracefulness’; his debut full-length collection, The Fetch (Nine Arches Press, 2016) was described by David Morley as ‘terrific, precise, and dazzling’.
His poetry has been commissioned for and broadcast on the BBC, and published widely both in anthologies and some of the most influential poetry journals produced in the United Kingdom and beyond, including The Hudson Review, The Poetry Review, Wild Court, Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal, The Rialto, Magma and Poetry London. In 2013 he was awarded a Hawthornden Fellowship, and his poetry has received numerous other literary distinctions.
Conference leadership
- Director, Coleridge Autumn Study Weekend (2017-present)
- Co-convenor, ‘The Reserve of Superstition’, Durham University and Birmingham City University (2021- )
- Convenor, ‘Coleridge and Lamb in London: A Symposium’, Highgate Literary and Scientific Institution, 31 October 2015
- Organising Committee, the biennial International Coleridge Summer Conference (2010-14)
- Assistant Convenor, ‘Scott, Romance, and “Real History”’: The Eighth International Conference on Walter Scott, Oxford Brookes University, 30 July-3 August 2007
Poetry commissions and residencies
- Poetry and narrative commissioned for Write Brummie , BBC Radio 4 , broadcast 21 November 2019
- ‘Terroir’: Commission for Overhear Poetry app , Birmingham, September 2019
- Poet in Residence, King’s High School, Warwick, 2019-20
- ‘Sakadas at Delphi’: Commission for the opening of the new Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, March 2018, presented to HRH Prince Edward (Patron)
- ‘Unconscious Minister’: Commission for ‘Writing Lives Together’ project, University of Leicester (Leicester: Centre for New Writing, 2017)
- ‘Beorma’: Commission for the inauguration of Sir Lenny Henry as Chancellor of Birmingham City University, November 2016
- Poet in Residence (Anne Hathaway’s Cottage), Stratford-upon-Avon Poetry Festival, 18-25 September 2016
- ‘A miracle of rare device’: Exploring Coleridge’s ‘Kubla Khan’ - commissioned blog article for the Poetry Society Young Poets Network , August 2016
- ‘Sum’: Commission by Writing West Midlands for BBC Radio 4, Something Understood, broadcast 12 April 2015
- ‘Misterioso’: Commission by Birmingham City University for the Music for Youth National Festival, July 2014
- Poet in Residence, ‘Twice Upon a Time: Magic, Alchemy and the Transubstantiation of the Senses’, Centre for Fine Art Research, School of Art, Birmingham City University, 26 June 2014
- ‘The Sphere’: Commission by John Donne Day, Polesworth Abbey Church, 2 April 2013
- Poet in Residence, Radley College, Abingdon, January 2010
- ‘Oxford Poets and Exiled Writers’ (2008-09): Arts Council England-funded commission by Oxford Brookes University and Asylum Welcome to produce new poetry and mentor a refugee writer
Postgraduate Supervision
Greg is currently supervising doctoral theses on meteorological poetry; contemporary reception of the literary arts (funded via an AHRC Midlands Four Cities Collaborative Doctoral Award, in partnership with Writing West Midlands); and Keats’s letters.
Other recent doctoral theses Greg has supervised include representations of the domestic uncanny in contemporary short fiction; disability poetics (funded by AHRC Midlands Four Cities), and fictional autobiography and the fragmentary novel.
He welcomes PhD proposals on any aspect of British Romanticism, its connections to prior literature and its legacies; nineteenth-century, twentieth-century and contemporary poetry; and creative writing, especially poetry.
Publications
Poetry: books
- Maskwork (Rugby: Nine Arches Press, 2020)
- The Fetch (Rugby: Nine Arches Press, 2016)
- Balanuve (with photographs by Phil Thomson) (Broken Sleep Books, 2021)
Poetry: pamphlets
- The Body in the Well (Glenrothes: HappenStance Press, 2007)
Poetry: anthologies
- This Is Not Your Final Form: Poems about Birmingham, ed. Richard O’Brien and Emma Wright (Birmingham: The Emma Press, 2017)
- CAST: The Poetry Business Book of New Contemporary Poets , ed. Simon Armitage, Joanna Gavins, Ann Sansom and Peter Sansom (Sheffield: Smith/Doorstop, 2014)
- Birdbook II: Freshwater Habitats , ed. Kirsten Irving and Jon Stone (London: Sidekick Books, 2012)
- See how I land: Oxford poets and exiled writers , ed. Carole Angier (Coventry: Heaventree Press, 2009)
- Heaventree New Poets 4 (Coventry: Heaventree Press, 2006)
- Goldfish: An Anthology of New Writing from Goldsmiths (London: Goldsmiths College, 2006)
- He Drew Down Blue from the Sky: The Arvon International Poetry Competition Anthology 2004 (London: Arvon Foundation, 2004)
Poetry: journals (selected)
- The Poetry Review 110:2 (Summer 2020)
- Consilience 1 (22 June 2020)
- Wild Court (2 June 2020)
- Lyrical Aye (28 April 2020)
- The Hudson Review LXXIII No. 1 (Spring 2020)
- Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal 3 (March 2020)
- Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal 2 (December 2019)
- Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal 1 (September 2019)
- New Boots and Pantisocracies (25 November 2016)
- The Poetry Review 105:2 (Summer 2015)
- Z ēt ēsis 3 (Vol. 2 No. 1, 2015)
- The North 52 (Spring 2014)
- The Poetry Review 104:1 (Spring 2014)
- The Poetry Review 103:2 (Summer 2013)
- The Rialto 76 (November 2012)
- Magma 54 (November 2012)
- Variations 20 (November 2012)
- Romanticism 16.2 (July 2010)
- Poetry London 59 (Spring 2008) and 52 (Autumn 2005)
- Agenda 40:4 (Autumn/Winter 2004) (online Broadsheet 3)
Poetry: music
- The Fetch song-cycle – five poems from The Fetch set to music for piano and voice, by composer and pianist Eric McElroy (premiere performance: Holywell Music Room, Oxford, 28 November 2019)
Monograph
- Coleridge and the Daemonic Imagination (New York and London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011) – Awarded the University English Book Prize 2012
Book chapters
- ‘Savage, Holy, Enchanted: Coleridge in Concert with the Wild’, in Wild Romanticism, ed. Markus Poetzsch and Cassandra Falke (New York and London: Routledge, 2021)
- ‘Byronic Inflections in British Poetry since 1945’, in Byron Among the English Poets, ed. Clare Bucknell and Matthew Ward (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021)
- ‘Hare and Hound: Ends and Means in Coleridge’s Letters’, in Romanticism and the Letter, ed. Madeleine Callaghan and Anthony Howe (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), 83-98
- ‘“The Mother of Lies”? Poetry, Fiction and Truth’, for The Craft, ed. Rishi Dastidar (Rugby: Nine Arches Press, 2019), 191-98
- ‘Hughes and Shamanism’, in Ted Hughes in Context, ed. Terry Gifford (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018), 187-96
- ‘The Hunt Circle and the Cockney School’, in John Keats in Context, ed. Michael O’Neill (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017), 89-98
- ‘The Lyric Impulse of Poems, in Two Volumes’, in The Oxford Handbook of William Wordsworth, eds. Richard Gravil and Daniel Robinson (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015), 221-36
Articles
- ‘Poets in a Transnatural Landscape: Coleridge, Nature, Poetry’, Romanticism Special Issue, ed. Tim Fulford (2021)
- ‘Moon’, ‘Oracle’ and ‘Nature’ in world literature for the Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception, ed. Eric Ziolkowski et al (Berlin: De Gruyter, forthcoming 2020-21)
- ‘The “true wild weird spirit” of “Christabel”’, The Coleridge Bulletin 50 (NS) (Winter 2017), 15-29
- ‘The Snake, the Goddess and the Poet’s Learning: Ted Hughes and the Contentions of Criticism’, The Ted Hughes Society Journal 5:2 (2016), 7-21
- ‘Marked by secret knowledge: Coleridge and the mystery of “Orpheus”’, The Times Literary Supplement, 20 May 2016, 15-16
- ‘Poetry, Politics and Portents: Coleridge and the Waters of Plynlimon’, The Coleridge Bulletin 43 (NS) (Summer 2014), 29-36
- ‘The Comic Imagination in Lamb and Coleridge’, The Charles Lamb Bulletin 159 (Spring 2014), 11-19
- ‘Coleridge’s Lizards in Malta and Sicily: Geraldine under the Sun’, The Wordsworth Circle 43:2 (Spring 2012), 90-4
- ‘Wordsworth’s “Untrodden Ways”: Death, Absence and the Space of Writing’, in Grasmere 2011: Selected Papers from the Wordsworth Summer Conference (Humanities-Ebooks, 2011), ed. Richard Gravil, 103-10
- ‘Liberty and Occult Ambition in Coleridge’s Early Poetry’, The Coleridge Bulletin 32 (NS) (Winter 2008), 1-9
- ‘Coleridge and the “More Permanent Revolution”’, The Coleridge Bulletin 30 (NS) (Winter 2007), 1-16
- ‘Coleridge and the Languages of Paganism’, The Wordsworth Circle 38:3 (Summer 2007), 117-21
Audio drama
- Scriptwriter, BBC radio drama series Silver Street (2005-2007)
Reviews and literary journalism (selected)
- Poetry by P.J. Anderson, for Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal 5 (October 2020)
- John Beer tribute: On Coleridge’s Poetic Intelligence, The Coleridge Bulletin 51 (NS) (Summer 2018), 5-7
- Poems, in Two Volumes (Wordsworth), ed. Richard Matlak (Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview, 2016), for The Coleridge Bulletin 50 (NS) (Winter 2017), 113-14
- ‘On the Cultural Impact of the UK Vote to Leave the EU’, in Brexit and the Cultural Sector, eds. Gesa Stedman and Sandra van Lente (Berlin: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 2017), 76-80
- Michael O’Neill and Madeleine Callaghan (eds), Twentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry: Hardy to Mahon, for Notes & Queries 63(3) (September 2016), 498-99
- Poetry by Matthew Sweeney and Eamon Grennan, for The Poetry Review 105:4 (Winter 2015), 99-103
- Poetry by John McAuliffe and Kate Bingham, for The Poetry Review 105:3 (Autumn 2015), 118-22
- Poetry by David Harsent and John Hartley Williams, for The Poetry Review 104:4 (Winter 2014), 89-93
- Poetry by Marianne Burton, Fred D’Aguiar and Leanne O’Sullivan, for The Poetry Review 103:4 (Winter 2013), 85-9
- Fiona Stafford, Local Attachments: The Province of Poetry, for Romanticism 19.2 (July 2013), 224-26
- John Beer, Coleridge’s Play of Mind, for the British Association for Romantic Studies Bulletin and Review 42 (June 2013), 48-9
- David Fairer,Organising Poetry: The Coleridge Circle 1790-1798, for The Charles Lamb Bulletin (NS) 155 (Spring 2012)
- Daniel Hahn, Coleridge, for Romanticism 18.1 (April 2012), 123-24
- Barry Hough and Howard Davis,Coleridge’s Laws: A Study of Coleridge in Malta, for Romanticism 17.3 (October 2011), 374-76
- Margot Finn, Michael Lobban and Jenny Bourne Taylor (eds), Legitimacy and Illegitimacy in Nineteenth-Century Law, Literature and History , for The Wordsworth Circle 42:4 (Autumn 2011), 265-66
- Tom Duggett, Gothic Romanticism, for The Wordsworth Circle 41:4 (Autumn 2010), 215-17
- Nicholas Reid, Coleridge, Form and Symbol, and Richard Berkeley, Coleridge and the Crisis of Reason, for the British Association for Romantic Studies Bulletin and Review 37 (October 2010)
- Brian Goldberg, The Lake Poets and Professional Identity, for Romanticism 16.1 (April 2010), 102-04
- Felicity James, Charles Lamb, Coleridge and Wordsworth: Reading Friendship in the 1790s , for The Wordsworth Circle 40:2 (Autumn 2009), 155-57
Lectures and papers (selected)
- Invited speaker: ‘Coleridge’s Invisible Religion: A Primer’, Romantic Research Seminar, Oxford University, 29 October 2019
- Plenary speaker: ‘Coleridge and the “Poetry of Nature”: Self-Altering States in a More-Than-Human World’, at ‘Coleridge and the Natural World’, Coleridge Autumn Study Weekend, Halsway Manor, 13-15 September 2019
- ‘Poets in a Transnatural Landscape’, Romantic Walking Conference, Keswick, 27-28 April 2019
- ‘A Creative-Critical Ethos’, Symposium on Creative-Critical Teaching, Institute of English Studies, London, 30 March 2019
- Invited speaker: ‘Literature and the Environment’, ‘The Value of Reading’ and poetry recital, Mathrubhumi International Festival of Letters, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India, 31 January-3 February 2019
- ‘“The fundamental poetic event”: Hughes, Poetry and Shamanism’, Ted Hughes Conference, 28-30 August 2018
- ‘Hare and Hound: Ends and Means in Coleridge’s Letters’, Coleridge Summer Conference, 6-9 August 2018
- ‘Graves and the Supranational Poet’, Robert Graves Conference, Palma, Mallorca, 10-14 July 2018
- Housman Birthday Commemoration Speech, The Housman Society, Bromsgrove, 26 March 2018
- Plenary lecture: ‘The “true wild weird spirit” of “Christabel”’, Coleridge Autumn Study Weekend, 16-18 September 2016
- Plenary lecture: ‘Wordsworth’s Idleness’, Wordsworth Summer Conference, 8-13 August 2016
- ‘Poetic Faith: Poetry and the Supernatural in the “Mind’s Education”’, Coleridge Summer Conference, 1-5 August 2016
- Invited speaker: ‘Coleridge and the Mystery of “Orpheus”’, University of St Andrews, 14 October 2015
- ‘“The Knight”: Two Laws of Ted Hughes’s Poetics’, Ted Hughes Conference, University of Sheffield, 9-12 September 2015
- Invited sub-plenary speaker: ‘Coleridge’s Daemonic Imagination’, European Society for the Study of English Conference 2014, Košice, Slovakia, 29 August-2 September 2014
- Plenary lecture: ‘“Resolution and Independence” and “Moods of My Own Mind”’, Wordsworth Winter School, 17-22 February 2014
- Plenary lecture: ‘The Lyric Impulse of Poems, in Two Volumes’, Wordsworth Summer Conference, 5-10 August 2013
- The Charles Lamb Society Annual Lecture: ‘The Comic Imagination in Lamb and Coleridge’, 13 April 2013
- ‘“The Snake in the Oak”: Ted Hughes, Coleridge, and the Contentions of Reading’, Ted Hughes Conference, Pembroke College, Cambridge, 14-15 September 2012
- Invited speaker: ‘Taste’, The Oxford and Cambridge Club, 6 September 2012
- Invited speaker: ‘The Rise of Creative Writing’, The Institute of English Studies, London, 1 May 2012
- ‘The Venom of Beauty, or, Geraldine Under the Sun: Coleridge’s Lizards in Malta and Sicily’, at ‘Encountering Malta: British Writers and the Mediterranean’, University of Malta, Valletta, 17-20 November 2011
- ‘Wordsworth’s “Untrodden Ways”: Death, Absence and the Space of Writing’, Wordsworth Summer Conference, 1-5 August 2011
- ‘Politics and Portents: Coleridge’s Walking Tour to Wales, July 1794’, at ‘The Wye Valley: Romantic Representations, 1640-1830’, Tintern, 6-8 July 2011
- ‘“Unlawful Thoughts”: The Power of Words in “The Foster-Mother’s Tale”’, Coleridge Summer Conference, 21-28 July 2010
- ‘Coleridge’s Daemonic Imagination’, at ‘Daimonic Imagination: Uncanny Intelligence’, University of Kent, 6-7 May 2011
- Invited speaker: ‘Looking for “another God”: Coleridge’s “The Wanderings of Cain”’, at the ‘Romantic Realignments’ postgraduate seminar, Oxford University, 11 February 2010
- Invited speaker: ‘Coleridge and the Transgressive Self’, Romantic Graduate Forum, Oxford University, 11 March 2009
- Invited speaker: ‘Transnatural Coleridge’, at ‘Coleridge’s Religious Imagination’, Friends of Coleridge Kilve Study Weekend, 5-7 September 2008
- ‘Making Space for the Unseen: Liberty and Occult Ambition in Coleridge’s Early Poetry’, Coleridge Summer Conference, 23-30 July 2008
- ‘Memory and Imagination in S.T. Coleridge’s Frost at Midnight ’, Arts and Humanities Winter Symposium, Oxford Brookes University, 8 December 2007
- ‘The Unnamed Vocation: Coleridge and Intellectual Revolution’, at ‘The Romantic Voice’ conference, Warwick University, 26 April 2007
- Invited speaker: ‘Initiating “Religion”: Coleridgean Theotropism’, at the ‘Romantic Realignments’ postgraduate seminar, Oxford University, 16 November 2006
- ‘“There worketh a spell”: Coleridge and the Languages of Paganism’, Coleridge Summer Conference, 20-26 July 2006
Media Work
- BBC Radio 4, One to One (2019) , in conversation with Alys Fowler
- BBC Four, Everything is Connected: George Eliot’s Life (2019), contributor
- ITV Six O’Clock News (2015), on new words added to the Oxford English Dictionary
- BBC Radio 4, Something Understood (2015), reading his poetry
- BBC Midlands Today (2013), on the new Library of Birmingham
- BBC Radio WM (2004), interviewed by Sally James
Greg is a highly regarded interviewer and compere of literary events, with a wealth of experience. He has chaired many headline events for Birmingham Literature Festival, including the former Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy and Jackie Kay, the Scots Makar. He has conducted many ‘in conversation’ and panel sessions with other writers for the Festival and the National Writers’ Conference, including Will Self, the Man Booker Prize shortlist event with Tom McCarthy and Sunjeev Sahota, Jenn Ashworth, Sathnam Sanghera, Anjali Joseph, Kerry Hudson, Nikesh Shukla, Lottie Moggach, Brett Westwood, Matthew Oates and Mary Colwell. In 2018 he chaired the Royal Society of Literature’s Peace Poetry event with Ian Duhig and Menna Elfyn for Birmingham Literature Festival. He led panel interviews and discussion with contributing poets Pascale Petit, Sandeeo Parmar, Hannah Lowe, Jane Yeh, Amy Key and Carrie Etter for Verve Poetry Festival in 2018 and 2019.
As a poet Greg is invited to give numerous public readings and lectures every year; recently these have included major events in the United Kingdom and readings overseas in Malta, Mallorca, and India.
Greg worked as a Researcher and as part of the Production Team on Gardeners’ World (BBC Two, 2005-2007) and the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition (BBC Two, 2006 and 2007).
Professor Gregory Leadbetter is one of the University’s dedicated team of trained media champions, and can comment on a wide range of subjects including:
- Literature in English
- Poetry
- Creative Writing
- Arts and Culture
To arrange a media interview, please contact Birmingham City University Press Office on 0121 331 6738, 07967 271532,
email press@bcu.ac.uk or via Twitter @BCUPressOffice
Links and Social Media
- Website: www.gregoryleadbetter.com
- Twitter: @GregMLeadbetter
- Instagram: gregory_leadbetter
- 'In Liquid Silhouette: An Interview with Gregory Leadbetter', by Medha Singh, Berfrois (07.02.20)
- An Interview with Gregory Leadbetter, by Sophie Jones, Artful Scribe (10.12.18)
- Life of Breath podcast of 'To Breathe Ourselves into Some Other Lungs' event, Breathe Oxford, 18 July 2017
- Ledbury Poetry Salon: Gregory Leadbetter in conversation with Chloe Garner , Hellens Manor, Much Marcle, 16 May 2017