Todd Swift (b. 1966) was born in St-Lambert, Quebec, Canada. He moved to London in 2004, having lived previously in Budapest and Paris. He is Oxfam Poet In Residence (UK) in 2004-ongoing. In that position he edited two best-selling poetry CDs for the charity,
Life Lines and
Life Lines 2, and ran a widely-attended London reading series for four years. He is Poetry Editor for
Nthposition and lectures in Creative Writing at Kingston University at the graduate and undergraduate levels, and is a core tutor for The Poetry School. He also teaches poetry and theory at Birkbeck. He is the editor of many anthologies, including
100 Poets Against The War (Salt, 2003) and four of his own poetry books have been published,
Budavox,
Cafe Alibi,
Rue du Regard and most recently
Winter Tennis (2007). His
New and Selected Poems is forthcoming from Salmon, Ireland, in 2008. Poems of his have appeared in
Jacket,
Magma,
Dublin Quarterly,
Acumen,
Poetry London,
Poetry Review,
Succour, and
The Wolf, among many others. They have also appeared in two major anthologies of new Canadian poetry,
Open Field, and
The New Canon. His blog,
EYEWEAR, has been quoted in
The Guardian, and is widely read. He has reviewed for
Poetry Review,
Poetry London,
Magma,
Books in Canada and
The Globe and Mail. Swift has an MA in Creative Writing from UEA, and is completing a PhD in Creative and Critical Writing there. [
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