John Goodby

John Goodby lectures in English at the University of Wales Swansea. He has written extensively on Irish poetry and is the author of Irish Poetry Since 1950: from Stillness into History (2000). He is also the editor of Irish Studies: the Essential Glossary (2004) and Dylan Thomas: A New Casebook (2002).

His critical study of Dylan Thomas, Under the Spelling Wall: the Critical Fates of Dylan Thomas, is published this year. His first book of poems, A Birmingham Yank, was published by Arc in 1998.