Grevel Lindop lives in Manchester, where he was formerly Professor of English at the University. His books include Travels on the Dance Floor (a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week and shortlisted for Authors’ Club Dolman Best Travel Book 2009); A Literary Guide to the Lake District (a Lakeland Book of the Year); and The Opium-Eater: A Life of Thomas De Quincey, as well as seven collections of poems from Carcanet Press, who publish his Selected Poems (2000) as well as his latest collection, Luna Park (2015).