Role
Dr Taylor teaches Creative Writing. He teaches undergraduate and postgraduate students and supervises a number of PhD creative /critical writing candidates. He was course leader for the BA (Hons) Creative Writing programme between 2017 and 2025.
Dr Taylor is a published poet, critic and an editor. He is a member of NTU’s Creative Practice: Writing and Publishing Group.
Dr Taylor is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Visit his personal website or follow him on X.
Career overview
Dr Taylor previously taught at Edge Hill University where he was founder member of the Poetry and Poetics Research Group. He studied for his BA in English and MA in Creative Writing at Edge Hill University. His PhD - thesis title: A Poetry of Place, the Flâneur and Adrian Henri - was awarded by Lancaster University.
Research areas
Dr Taylor's recent research has been into the work and practice of the acclaimed Welsh poet, Peter Finch. He edited, in two volumes, the Collected Poems of Peter Finch, (Bridgend: Seren Books, 2022). In 2025, he published the first monograph on Finch, There's Everything to Play For: The Poetry of Peter Finch (Bridgend: Seren Books).
Dr Taylor wrote the first monograph to be published on Liverpool poet and artist Adrian Henri, Adrian Henri: A Critical Reading (London: Greenwich Exchange, 2019).
Other research interests include experimental poetry, poetics, conceptual writing and the Beat Generation. Further research interests include eco-poetics, travel writing and the nightingale in poetry.
Dr Taylor is currently working on a book about Thomas De Quincey, Everton F.C. and the area of Everton in the city of Liverpool.
External activity
Dr Taylor is a co-editor at Liverpool based poetry journal, erbacce and its associated publishing house, erbacce-Press. (www.erbacce-press.co.uk) He is editor of the blogzine M58. Dr Taylor reviews poetry in magazines such as Orbis and Litter. He has reviewed film and music for the magazines International Times and Stride.
Sponsors and collaborators
Dr Taylor has collaborated with Edward Chell, Reader in Fine Art at University for the Creative Arts, Canterbury; Welsh based artist, Julie Jones; Spanish based poet, Charlie Baylis and the Liverpool musician and writer, Nick Power.
Publications
State Honey (Nottingham: Leafe Press) 2026 ISBN: 9781919201207
There's Everything to Play For: The Poetry of Peter Finch (Bridgend: Seren Books) 2025 ISBN:9781781727829
European Hymns (Swindon: Shearsman Books) 2024 ISBN:9781848619494
Voie (High Peak: The Red Ceilings Press) 2023
Northangerland (re-versions of the Poetry of Branwell Brontë (Nottingham: Leafe Press) 2022 ISBN:9781739721329
Peter Finch Collected Poems (Cardiff: Seren Books) (editor; two volumes) Vol 1 ISBN 9781781726716 Vol 2 2022 ISBN 9781781726709
Not There-Here (Swindon: Shearsman Books) 2021 ISBN:9781848617872
Silo (High Peak: The Red Ceilings Press) 2021
Empire (Nottingham: M58 Communications) 2020
Adrian Henri: A Critical Reading (London: Greenwich Exchange) 2019 ISBN: 9781910996287
Lowdeine Chronicles (with Nick Power) (Liverpool: erbacce Press) 2019 ISBN: 9781912455072
at first it felt like flying (with Charlie Baylis) (Beaworthy: Indigo Dreams) 2019 ISBN: 9781910834992
Aire (High Peak: The Red Ceilings Press) 2018
15.11.13. – 5.2.14 (Leeds: Stranger Press) 2018 ISBN: 9780244626822
The 140’s (Nottingham: Leafe Press) 2018 ISBN: 9781999945107
March (Bristol: Shearsman Books) 2017 ISBN: 9781848615052
The Liverpool Warehousing Co. Ltd. (Manchester: zimZalla) 2016
Air Vault (Hunstanton: Oystercatcher Press) 2016 ISBN: 9781905885954
Future Dust (Maryport: Original Plus) 2015 ISBN: 9780993118616
Radio Mast Horizon (Bristol: Shearsman Books) 2013 ISBN: 9781848612624
Comfort and Joy (Online: Ten Pages Press) 2011 ISBN:9781848612624
The Lights Will Inspire You (Oakland: Full of Crow Press) 2011
The Sound of Light Aircraft (Newton-Le-Willows: Knives Forks & Spoons Press) 2010 ISBN:9780956541857
Make Some Noise (Maryport: Original Plus) 2009 ISBN: 9780956243331
And the Weary are at Rest (Buffalo: Sunnyoutside Press) 2008 ISBN:9781934513101
Temporary Residence (Liverpool: erbacce Press) 2007 ISBN:9780955575433
Cathedral Poems (Poole: Paula Brown Publishing) 2005 ISBN:9780954362195
Poetry and Skin Cream (Liverpool: erbacce Press) 2004 ISBN:9780955575402
Turn for Home (Bristol and Liverpool: The Brodie Press) 2003 ISBN:9780954264949