Robert Gavin Hampson

Robert Gavin Hampson (born Liverpool 1948) was educated at King's College London and the University of Toronto.^[1] During the 1970s he co-edited the poetry magazine Alembic with Peter Barry and Ken Edwards and was part of the British Poetry Revival.^[2] He co-edited The New British poetries: The scope of the possible (1993) with Peter Barry. His poetry publications include Assembled Fugitives: Selected poems 1973-1998 (2001), Seaport (2008),an explanation of colours (2010), Reworked Disasters (2012), which was long-listed for the Forward Prize. He founded the MA in Poetic Practice at Royal Holloway, University of London, with Redell Olsen.^[3]

His work as one of the editors of Alembic has received attention in two books by Wolfgang Gortschacher - Little Magazine Profiles: The Little Magazines in Great Britain, 1939-1993 (University of Salzburg, 1993) and Contemporary Views on the Little Magazine Scene (Poetry Salzburg, 2000)- and, more recently, in an interview (with Ken Edwards) by Sophie Seita in the magazine mimeo mimeo (2014). His best-known work is probably Seaport, which has been written about by Peter Barry, Andrew Duncan, Amy Cutler, Neal Alexander and others. His poetry has been translated into German, Italian and Rumanian. See, for example, Wolfgang Gortschacher & Ludwig Laher, So Also Ist Das: Eine Zweisprachige Anthologie Britischer Gegenswartslyrik (Haymon-Verlag, 2002).

He has also pursued a parallel career as a Conrad scholar and editor with three monographs on Joseph Conrad: Joseph Conrad: Betrayal and Identity (1992), Cross-Cultural Encounters in Joseph Conrad's Malay Fiction (2000) and Conrad's Secrets (2013). He was editor of The Conradian (1989–96) and edited various Conrad texts - Lord Jim (1986), Victory (1989), Heart of Darkness (1995) - for Penguin books, as well as Rudyard Kipling's Something of Myself (1987) and Soldiers Three (1993) and Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines (2000).^[4]

Publications

Poetry

• Degrees of Addiction (London: Share, 1975).
• How Nell Scored (London: Poet & Peasant, 1976).
• A Necessary Displacement (Orpington: Pushtika, 1978).
• A Feast of Friends (Durham: Pig Press, 1982).
• A City at War (London: Northern Lights, 1985).
• (with David Miller) Nevsky Prospekt (Dublin: hardPressed poetry, 1988).
• A human measure (Dublin: hardPressed poetry, 1989).
• Unicorns: 7 Studies in Velocity (London: Pushtika, 1989).
• (with Gerlinde Roder-Bolton) Dingo (London: Pushtika Press, 1994).
• Seaport: interim edition (Woking: Pushtika Press, 1995)..
• (with Gerlinde Roder-Bolton), higher densities: a new hampshire sampler (Woking: Pushtika Press, 1996).
• C for Security (Woking: Pushtika Press, 2001).
• Pentimento (Pushtika Press, 2005).
• out of sight (Crater Press, 2012.)
• Assembled fugitives: selected poems, 1973-1998 (Exeter: Stride Press, 2001).
• Seaport (Shearsman, 2008).
• an explanation of colours (Veer Books, 2010.)
• Reworked Disasters (ksf,2012).
• (with Robert Sheppard) Liverpool (Hugs &) Kisses (ship of fools / pushtika, 2015).

Joseph Conrad

Joseph Conrad: Betrayal and Identity (Macmillan, 1992).

Cross-Cultural Encounters in Joseph Conrad's Malay Fiction (Palgrave, 2000).

Conrad's Secrets (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012).

Ford Madox Ford

(Co-edited with Tony Davenport), Ford Madox Ford: A Re-Appraisal (Rodopi, 2002).

(Co-edited with Max Saunders), Ford Madox Ford's Modernity (Rodopi, 2003).

Critical Work on Poetry

(Co-edited with Peter Barry), New British poetries: The scope of the possible (Manchester University Press, 1993).

(Co-edited with Will Montgomery), Frank O'Hara Now (Liverpool University Press, 2010)

References

• Robert Hampson, http://www.rhul.ac.uk
• Eric Mottram, 'The British Poetry Revival, 1960-1975' in Robert Hampson and Peter Barry, 'New British Poetries: The scope of the possible' (Manchester University Press, 1993).
• 'The hard lyric: re-registering Liverpool poetry' in Peter Barry, 'Contemporary British Poetry and the City' (Manchester University Press, 2000), 137-64.
• Viannu, Lidia. "Interview with Robert Hampson". www.argotistonline.co.uk/Hampson%20interview.htm.  Missing or empty |url= (help); |accessdate= requires |url= (help)
• Wolfgang Gortschacher, 'Little Magazine Profiles' (University of Salzburg, 1993), pp. 163–65.
• Wolfgang Gortschacher, 'Contemporary Views on the Little Magazine Scene' (Poetry Salzburg, 2000), pp. 388–424
• Richard Price and David Miller, 'British Little Magazines' (British Library Publications, 2006).
• Neal Alexander, David Cooper (eds), Poetry & Geography: Space & Place in post-War Poetry (Oxford University Press)
• http://www.archiveofthenow.org ArchiveoftheNow
• http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/
• http://jacketmagazine.com
• Hampson, Robert. "Seaport". www.shearsman.com/ws-public/upload/223_robert_hampson_seaport.pdf. Shearsman.  Missing or empty |url= (help); |accessdate= requires |url= (help)