Steve Ely’s collections Oswald’s Book of Hours (2013) andEnglaland (2015) are published by Smokestack Books. His pamphlet Werewolf has just been published by Calder Valley Poetry. His biographical work Ted Hughes’s South Yorkshire: Made in Mexborough, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2015. He lectures in Creative Writing at the University of Huddersfield where he is Director of the newly formed Ted Hughes Network.