Stephen Regan has taught at Royal Holloway, University of London; Ruskin College, Oxford; and Durham University, where he is now Director of the Centre for Poetry and Poetics. His books include Irish Writing: An Anthology of Irish Literature in English 1789-1939 (2004) and The Sonnet (2019).
Andrew Motion's most recent collection of poetry is Randomly Moving Particles. He was Poet Laureate from 1999 to 2009, has served as Professor of Creative Writing at Royal Holloway, University of London, and is now Homewood Professor of the Arts at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore.