Nick Selby

Since retiring from UEA in 2025,  Nick Selby is now Honorary Professor of American Literature.

He is currently completing two book projects: American Poetry Since 1900: Dazzling Geographies, is due for publication by Edinburgh University Press in 2026; and Robert Creeley's Ecopoetics - On the Limits of Ecological Thinking, is under contract with Palgrave (in its 'Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics series'). This latter book turns to issues of intimacy, affect, and touch in Robert Creeley’s work in order to examine close-reading as ecological thinking.

American poetry of the twentieth century is at the core of Professor Selby's research. As well as focusing on American experimental poetry, avant-gardism and the issue of what constitutes an American poetics, his current interests also include ecopoetry and poetics, Robert Creeley, transatlantic connections in British experimental poetry, and theories of the ethics and politics of close-reading.

American literature, esp. poetry; ecopoetry and ecopoetics; American culture; American experimental art; British experimental poetry.