About Stephen Ely

Steve Ely is a poet, novelist and biographer based at the University of Huddersfield, where he is Director of the Ted Hughes Network. He has written over a dozen books of poetry, including the award winning/nominated books Oswald’s Book of Hours, Incendium Amoris and The European Eel. He has also written a novel, Ratmen, and Ted Hughes’s South Yorkshire, a biographical work about the poet's formative years. His most recent books of poems (all 2024) are all explorations of nature and landscape in the context of culture & the self: Eely explores autobiography, ecology and the anthropocene through the lens of the European eel; Orasaigh is a visionary improvisation set in the landscape of the eponymous Hebridean islet; Apocalyptic Landscape is an anthology he edited comprising entries to an international competition based on his course, ‘Writing the Apocalyptic Landscape’.