Rod Mengham
Rod Mengham is the author and editor of books on 19th and 20th century fiction, 20th century poetry, violence and avant garde art, and language and cultural history. He's also editor of the Equipage series of poetry pamphlets, and joint editor and translator of Altered State: the New Polish Poetry. His own poems have been published under the titles Unsung: New and Selected Poems (Salt, 2001), Chance of a Storm (Carcanet, 2015) and Grimspound & Inhabiting Art (Carcanet, 2018). In 2020, he was given a Cholmondely Award for Poetry by the UK Society of Authors. In the last 20 years, he has published numerous art critical essays and has also worked as a freelance curator. He was Curator of Works of Art at Jesus between 2003 and 2018.