Professor Gregory Leadbetter

Professor of Poetry, Course Director of the MA in Creative Writing, Director of the Institute of Creative and Critical Writing
- 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, (2020) and (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: 鈥楥oleridge鈥檚 Transnatural Poetics鈥 鈥 Oxford Brookes University (Research Studentship)
- Certificate in Associate Teaching in Higher Education, Oxford Brookes University
- MA Creative and Life Writing 鈥 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鈥檚 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鈥檚 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鈥檚 relationship to Wordsworth; Coleridge鈥檚 philosophy of language; contesting ideas of 鈥榥ature鈥; 鈥榬eason鈥 and the idea of the Fall in Coleridge鈥檚 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 鈥榓 subtle and erudite meditation on Coleridge鈥檚 poetry, making frequently brilliant connections with his notebooks, essays, and letters鈥 (Richard Holmes, biographer of Coleridge and author of The Age of Wonder); 鈥榓 new way into Coleridge ... a compelling and encompassing account of a powerfully heterodoxical mind鈥 (Professor Seamus Perry, Balliol College, Oxford); and 鈥榓n exciting book and necessary not only for readers of Coleridge and Wordsworth but also for anyone interested in how poetry is made鈥 (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鈥檚 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 Ko拧ice, Slovakia, on the basis that his work is 鈥榓 most excellent representative of current and cutting-edge British scholarship鈥.
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鈥檚 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 鈥 at once a credo and manifesto 鈥 sets out Greg鈥檚 pioneering thinking on poetry and the transnatural in relation to the reading and writing of poetry today.
Greg鈥檚 recent essays include studies of the wild in Coleridge鈥檚 poetry and thought; poetry, walking, and landscape; Byron鈥檚 influence on British poetry since 1945; the poetics of Coleridge鈥檚 letters; the relationship between poetry, fiction and truth; Ted Hughes and shamanism; Keats, the Hunt circle and the 鈥楥ockney School鈥; the comic imagination in Charles Lamb and Coleridge; the lyric impulse in Wordsworth鈥檚 Poems, in Two Volumes; entries on 鈥楳oon鈥, 鈥極racle鈥, and 鈥楴ature鈥 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鈥檚 largely unknown poem, 鈥極rpheus鈥.
Greg鈥檚 work as a poet 鈥 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 鈥 has achieved international recognition and acclaim. His collection Maskwork (Nine Arches Press, 2020) was described by novelist Jim Crace as 鈥榓 masterclass in artistry and gracefulness鈥; his debut full-length collection, The Fetch (Nine Arches Press, 2016) was described by David Morley as 鈥榯errific, precise, and dazzling鈥.
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,听Wild Court, Poetry 探花直播 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, 鈥楾he Reserve of Superstition鈥, Durham University and 探花直播 (2021- )
- Convenor, 鈥楥oleridge and Lamb in London: A Symposium鈥, Highgate Literary and Scientific Institution, 31 October 2015
- Organising Committee, the biennial International Coleridge Summer Conference (2010-14)
- Assistant Convenor, 鈥楽cott, Romance, and 鈥淩eal History鈥濃: The Eighth International Conference on Walter Scott, Oxford Brookes University, 30 July-3 August 2007
Poetry commissions and residencies
- Poetry and narrative commissioned for , broadcast 21 November 2019
- 鈥楾erroir鈥: Commission for , 探花直播, September 2019
- Poet in Residence, King鈥檚 High School, Warwick, 2019-20
- 鈥楽akadas at Delphi鈥: Commission for the opening of the new Royal 探花直播 Conservatoire, March 2018, presented to HRH Prince Edward (Patron)
- 鈥楿nconscious Minister鈥: Commission for 鈥榃riting Lives Together鈥 project, University of Leicester (Leicester: Centre for New Writing, 2017)
- 鈥楤eorma鈥: Commission for the inauguration of Sir Lenny Henry as Chancellor of 探花直播, November 2016
- Poet in Residence (Anne Hathaway鈥檚 Cottage), Stratford-upon-Avon Poetry Festival, 18-25 September 2016
- 鈥楢 miracle of rare device鈥: Exploring Coleridge鈥檚 鈥楰ubla Khan鈥 - commissioned blog article for the , August 2016
- 鈥Sum鈥: Commission by Writing West Midlands for
- 鈥楳isterioso鈥: Commission by 探花直播 for the Music for Youth National Festival, July 2014
- Poet in Residence, 鈥楾wice Upon a Time: Magic, Alchemy and the Transubstantiation of the Senses鈥, Centre for Fine Art Research, School of Art, 探花直播, 26 June 2014
- 鈥楾he Sphere鈥: Commission by John Donne Day, Polesworth Abbey Church, 2 April 2013
- Poet in Residence, Radley College, Abingdon, January 2010
- 鈥極xford Poets and Exiled Writers鈥 (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鈥檚 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 探花直播, ed. Richard O鈥橞rien and Emma Wright (探花直播: 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 探花直播 Literary Journal 3 (March 2020)
- Poetry 探花直播 Literary Journal 2 (December 2019)
- Poetry 探花直播 Literary Journal 1 (September 2019)
- New Boots and Pantisocracies (25 November 2016)
- The Poetry Review 105:2 (Summer 2015)
- Z 脓迟 脓蝉颈蝉 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
- 鈥 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) 鈥 Awarded the University English Book Prize 2012
Book chapters
- 鈥楽avage, Holy, Enchanted: Coleridge in Concert with the Wild鈥, in Wild Romanticism, ed. Markus Poetzsch and Cassandra Falke (New York and London: Routledge, 2021)
- 鈥楤yronic Inflections in British Poetry since 1945鈥, in Byron Among the English Poets, ed. Clare Bucknell and Matthew Ward (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021)
- 鈥楬are and Hound: Ends and Means in Coleridge鈥檚 Letters鈥, in Romanticism and the Letter, ed. Madeleine Callaghan and Anthony Howe (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), 83-98
- 鈥樷淭he Mother of Lies鈥? Poetry, Fiction and Truth鈥, for The Craft, ed. Rishi Dastidar (Rugby: Nine Arches Press, 2019), 191-98
- 鈥楬ughes and Shamanism鈥, in Ted Hughes in Context, ed. Terry Gifford (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018), 187-96
- 鈥楾he Hunt Circle and the Cockney School鈥, in John Keats in Context, ed. Michael O鈥橬eill (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017), 89-98
- 鈥楾he Lyric Impulse of Poems, in Two Volumes鈥, in The Oxford Handbook of William Wordsworth, eds. Richard Gravil and Daniel Robinson (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015), 221-36
Articles
- 鈥楶oets in a Transnatural Landscape: Coleridge, Nature, Poetry鈥, Romanticism Special Issue, ed. Tim Fulford (2021)
- 鈥楳oon鈥, 鈥極racle鈥 and 鈥楴ature鈥 in world literature for the Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception, ed. Eric Ziolkowski et al (Berlin: De Gruyter, forthcoming 2020-21)
- 鈥楾he 鈥渢rue wild weird spirit鈥 of 鈥淐hristabel鈥濃, The Coleridge Bulletin 50 (NS) (Winter 2017), 15-29
- 鈥楾he Snake, the Goddess and the Poet鈥檚 Learning: Ted Hughes and the Contentions of Criticism鈥, The Ted Hughes Society Journal 5:2 (2016), 7-21
- 鈥楳arked by secret knowledge: Coleridge and the mystery of 鈥淥rpheus鈥濃, The Times Literary Supplement, 20 May 2016, 15-16
- 鈥楶oetry, Politics and Portents: Coleridge and the Waters of Plynlimon鈥, The Coleridge Bulletin 43 (NS) (Summer 2014), 29-36
- 鈥楾he Comic Imagination in Lamb and Coleridge鈥, The Charles Lamb Bulletin 159 (Spring 2014), 11-19
- 鈥楥oleridge鈥檚 Lizards in Malta and Sicily: Geraldine under the Sun鈥, The Wordsworth Circle 43:2 (Spring 2012), 90-4
- 鈥榃ordsworth鈥檚 鈥淯ntrodden Ways鈥: Death, Absence and the Space of Writing鈥, in Grasmere 2011: Selected Papers from the Wordsworth Summer Conference (Humanities-Ebooks, 2011), ed. Richard Gravil, 103-10
- 鈥楲iberty and Occult Ambition in Coleridge鈥檚 Early Poetry鈥, The Coleridge Bulletin 32 (NS) (Winter 2008), 1-9
- 鈥楥oleridge and the 鈥淢ore Permanent Revolution鈥濃, The Coleridge Bulletin 30 (NS) (Winter 2007), 1-16
- 鈥楥oleridge and the Languages of Paganism鈥, 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 探花直播 Literary Journal 5 (October 2020)
- John Beer tribute: On Coleridge鈥檚 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
- 鈥極n the Cultural Impact of the UK Vote to Leave the EU鈥, in Brexit and the Cultural Sector, eds. Gesa Stedman and Sandra van Lente (Berlin: Humboldt-Universit盲t zu Berlin, 2017), 76-80
- Michael O鈥橬eill 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鈥橝guiar and Leanne O鈥橲ullivan, 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鈥檚 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鈥檚 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: 鈥楥oleridge鈥檚 Invisible Religion: A Primer鈥, Romantic Research Seminar, Oxford University, 29 October 2019
- Plenary speaker: 鈥楥oleridge and the 鈥淧oetry of Nature鈥: Self-Altering States in a More-Than-Human World鈥, at 鈥楥oleridge and the Natural World鈥, Coleridge Autumn Study Weekend, Halsway Manor, 13-15 September 2019
- 鈥楶oets in a Transnatural Landscape鈥, Romantic Walking Conference, Keswick, 27-28 April 2019
- 鈥楢 Creative-Critical Ethos鈥, Symposium on Creative-Critical Teaching, Institute of English Studies, London, 30 March 2019
- Invited speaker: 鈥楲iterature and the Environment鈥, 鈥楾he Value of Reading鈥 and poetry recital, Mathrubhumi International Festival of Letters, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India, 31 January-3 February 2019
- 鈥樷淭he fundamental poetic event鈥: Hughes, Poetry and Shamanism鈥, Ted Hughes Conference, 28-30 August 2018
- 鈥楬are and Hound: Ends and Means in Coleridge鈥檚 Letters鈥, Coleridge Summer Conference, 6-9 August 2018
- 鈥楪raves and the Supranational Poet鈥, Robert Graves Conference, Palma, Mallorca, 10-14 July 2018
- Housman Birthday Commemoration Speech, The Housman Society, Bromsgrove, 26 March 2018
- Plenary lecture: 鈥楾he 鈥渢rue wild weird spirit鈥 of 鈥淐hristabel鈥濃, Coleridge Autumn Study Weekend, 16-18 September 2016
- Plenary lecture: 鈥榃ordsworth鈥檚 Idleness鈥, Wordsworth Summer Conference, 8-13 August 2016
- 鈥楶oetic Faith: Poetry and the Supernatural in the 鈥淢ind鈥檚 Education鈥濃, Coleridge Summer Conference, 1-5 August 2016
- Invited speaker: 鈥楥oleridge and the Mystery of 鈥淥rpheus鈥濃, University of St Andrews, 14 October 2015
- 鈥樷淭he Knight鈥: Two Laws of Ted Hughes鈥檚 Poetics鈥, Ted Hughes Conference, University of Sheffield, 9-12 September 2015
- Invited sub-plenary speaker: 鈥楥oleridge鈥檚 Daemonic Imagination鈥, European Society for the Study of English Conference 2014, Ko拧ice, Slovakia, 29 August-2 September 2014
- Plenary lecture: 鈥樷淩esolution and Independence鈥 and 鈥淢oods of My Own Mind鈥濃, Wordsworth Winter School, 17-22 February 2014
- Plenary lecture: 鈥楾he Lyric Impulse of Poems, in Two Volumes鈥, Wordsworth Summer Conference, 5-10 August 2013
- The Charles Lamb Society Annual Lecture: 鈥楾he Comic Imagination in Lamb and Coleridge鈥, 13 April 2013
- 鈥樷淭he Snake in the Oak鈥: Ted Hughes, Coleridge, and the Contentions of Reading鈥, Ted Hughes Conference, Pembroke College, Cambridge, 14-15 September 2012
- Invited speaker: 鈥楾aste鈥, The Oxford and Cambridge Club, 6 September 2012
- Invited speaker: 鈥楾he Rise of Creative Writing鈥, The Institute of English Studies, London, 1 May 2012
- 鈥楾he Venom of Beauty, or, Geraldine Under the Sun: Coleridge鈥檚 Lizards in Malta and Sicily鈥, at 鈥楨ncountering Malta: British Writers and the Mediterranean鈥, University of Malta, Valletta, 17-20 November 2011
- 鈥榃ordsworth鈥檚 鈥淯ntrodden Ways鈥: Death, Absence and the Space of Writing鈥, Wordsworth Summer Conference, 1-5 August 2011
- 鈥楶olitics and Portents: Coleridge鈥檚 Walking Tour to Wales, July 1794鈥, at 鈥楾he Wye Valley: Romantic Representations, 1640-1830鈥, Tintern, 6-8 July 2011
- 鈥樷淯nlawful Thoughts鈥: The Power of Words in 鈥淭he Foster-Mother鈥檚 Tale鈥濃, Coleridge Summer Conference, 21-28 July 2010
- 鈥楥oleridge鈥檚 Daemonic Imagination鈥, at 鈥楧aimonic Imagination: Uncanny Intelligence鈥, University of Kent, 6-7 May 2011
- Invited speaker: 鈥楲ooking for 鈥渁nother God鈥: Coleridge鈥檚 鈥淭he Wanderings of Cain鈥濃, at the 鈥楻omantic Realignments鈥 postgraduate seminar, Oxford University, 11 February 2010
- Invited speaker: 鈥楥oleridge and the Transgressive Self鈥, Romantic Graduate Forum, Oxford University, 11 March 2009
- Invited speaker: 鈥楾ransnatural Coleridge鈥, at 鈥楥oleridge鈥檚 Religious Imagination鈥, Friends of Coleridge Kilve Study Weekend, 5-7 September 2008
- 鈥楳aking Space for the Unseen: Liberty and Occult Ambition in Coleridge鈥檚 Early Poetry鈥, Coleridge Summer Conference, 23-30 July 2008
- 鈥楳emory and Imagination in S.T. Coleridge鈥檚 Frost at Midnight 鈥, Arts and Humanities Winter Symposium, Oxford Brookes University, 8 December 2007
- 鈥楾he Unnamed Vocation: Coleridge and Intellectual Revolution鈥, at 鈥楾he Romantic Voice鈥 conference, Warwick University, 26 April 2007
- Invited speaker: 鈥業nitiating 鈥淩eligion鈥: Coleridgean Theotropism鈥, at the 鈥楻omantic Realignments鈥 postgraduate seminar, Oxford University, 16 November 2006
- 鈥樷淭here worketh a spell鈥: Coleridge and the Languages of Paganism鈥, Coleridge Summer Conference, 20-26 July 2006
Media Work
- , in conversation with Alys Fowler
- BBC Four, Everything is Connected: George Eliot鈥檚 Life (2019), contributor
- ITV Six O鈥機lock 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 探花直播
- 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 探花直播 Literature Festival, including the former Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy and Jackie Kay, the Scots Makar. He has conducted many 鈥榠n conversation鈥 and panel sessions with other writers for the Festival and the National Writers鈥 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鈥檚 Peace Poetry event with Ian Duhig and Menna Elfyn for 探花直播 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鈥 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鈥檚 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
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