Tom Paulin grew up in Belfast and now lives in Oxford, where he is Emeritus Fellow of Hertford College, University of Oxford. He has published six books of critical prose on topics including Thomas Hardy and William Hazlitt, several plays and two anthologies. Of his ten collections of poetry, Walking a Line (1994), The Wind Dog (1999) and The Road to Inver (2004) were all also shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize. His New Selected Poems appeared in 2014. Namanlagh will be published by Faber & Faber in November 2025. Author photo © Bobbie Hanvey
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