Professor Andy Brown

Professor Andy Brown is a well-known poet, poetry commentator, novelist, and eco-critcal writer. He is Professor of Creative & Critical Writing, and CW MA Director. 

His most recent books of poetry are Grace Notes [with Marc Woodward] (Sea Crow Press); Baikal Zen (Muscaliet Press);  The Tin Lodes [with Marc Woodward] (Indigo Dreams Publishing); Casket (Sheasman Books); Bloodlines (Worple Press); Watersong (Shearsman Books) and Exurbia (Worple Press) He is currently working on a book of lyric poems THE BIG RIP (Worple Press, 2025); and a book of poems about horses, MEDICINE HAT. 

He recently published his second historical novel THE MIDNIGHT MECHANIC (Sea Crow Press, USA), which explores Victorian sanitation, sewerage and the guano trade. He is working on the sequel novel, WHITE GOLD (working title), which further explores the Victorian commodity froniter of guano. He has poublished many short stories in international journals, and a first historical novel about the 1549 Prayer Book rebellion, APPLES AND PRAYERS (Dean Street Press).

 He co-edited A Body of Work: an anthology of poetry and medical writing (Bloomsbury, 2015) with Corinna Wagner, and edited and contributed to The Writing Occurs as Song: A Kelvin Corcoran Reader (Shearsman 2014).

His major study of literary and artistic tree climbers THE TREE CLIMBING CURE is published by Bloomsbury, exploring literary, artisitc and natural-world benefits of tree climibing for mental heath.

His many previous poetry books include The Fool and the Physician (Salt Publishing), based on the paintings of Hieronymus Bosch; Goose Music (Salt) with John Burnside; and Fall of the Rebel Angels: Poems 1996-2006 (Salt, 2006) among several other previous volumes of poetry.

He collated and edited two collections of correspondences with contemporary writers, collected in Binary Myths 1&2 (Stride), and has worked with sculptors, filmmakers, and musicians. He writes regular reviews and articles for a range of literary journals. He is also a well-known performer and singer-songwriter around the South West of England.