Winter Moorings

Andrew McNeillie was born in North Wales and read English at Magdalen College, Oxford before becoming an editor and publisher. For many years he was literature editor at Oxford University Press. He has also held a chair in English at Exeter University where he is now Emeritus Professor. He is the founding editor of the magazine Archipelago and runs the Clutag Press. His memoir Once appeared in 2009 from Seren. His Carcanet poetry collections are Nevermore (Oxford Poets, 2000), Now, Then (2002), Slower (2006) and In Mortal Memory (2010). His memoir, An Aran Keening, was published in 2001.

'There is some extraordinary virtuosity here - in one poem, he finds 33 half-rhymes for "envy".' - John Greening, Country Life 'delightful... a distinctive voice' - The Times 'McNeillie's poetry is full of a sense of lives lived on the edge [...] full of resonance and bite' - Charles Bainbridge, Guardian 'McNeillie's special gift is for providing the pleasure that comes from recognition: we can see ourselves in his poems.' - Times Literary Supplement