John Sears is senior lecturer in English Literature at Manchester Metropolitan University. His books include his critical study Reading George Szirtes (Bloodaxe Books, 2008), Stephen King's Gothic (University of Wales Press, 2011), and he co-edited 4 saints in 3 acts: A snapshote of the American avant-garde in the 1930s (Manchester University Press, 2017) with Patricia Allmer. His recent essays address contemporary fiction and poetry by writers like Maggie Gee, Neil Bartlett and W.G. Sebald, and he has published essays and delivered papers on George Szirtes’ poetry at universities across Europe.
