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Professor of French and Comparative LiteratureSir Win and Lady Bischoff Fellow in FrenchTutor in Modern Languages
Patrick is an academic, critic, novelist, and poet.
French language and modern literature;comparative literature; modern theatre; modern British and American poetry.
His main research interests include 19th and 20th century French literature, especially Poetry and Theatre; French and Belgian Symbolism; Belgian Literature in French and Comparative Literature; Anglo-American Modernism and modern poetry in English.
More on Patrick's Faculty Profile and personal website.
Modernism and its Aftermaths: British and American Poetry after Pound, Liverpool University Press, forthcoming 2020
Poetry and Radical Politics in fin de siècle France (Oxford University Press 2015; pb 2018)
Maurice Maeterlinck and the Making of Modern Theatre (Oxford University Press, 2000)
‘Gilles Ortlieb: L’Oetranger’, Revues de Belles Lettres, 2018
‘Joan Murray’, London Review of Books, 20 December 2018
‘Their Mad Gallopade: Nancy Cunard’, London Review of Books, 25 January, 2018
‘Orhan Pamuk et le musée imaginaire’, Cahiers de l’Herne, ed. Sophie Basch, 2017
Throw me to the Wolves (Jonathan Cape, Bloomsbury US), 2019
Other People’s Countries (Jonathan Cape), 2014
The Last Hundred Days, (Seren/Bloomsbury US), 2011
Déjà-vu: Poesie schelte vecchie et nuove, trans. Girogia Sensi, Latiano, Interno Poesia, 2019
Five Poems, Clutag Press, 2016
Guide bleu, trans. Gilles Ortlieb, éditions Fario, 2015
Jilted City, Carcanet, 2010
19th Century Blues, The Poetry Business, 2006
The Canals of Mars, Carcanet, 2004