Midnight in the Kant Hotel: Art in Present Times

About Rod Mengham

Rod Mengham is author of several poetry publications including Unsung (Salt 2006) Chance of a Storm (Carcanet 2015) Grimspound & Inhabiting Art (Carcanet 2018) 2019 the vase in pieces (Oystercatcher 2019) and of translations including Speedometry poems by Andrzej Sosnowski (Contraband 2014) and Flatsharing poems by Anne Portugal (Equipage 2021). He was also co-editor and co-translator of the anthology Altered State: The New Polish Poetry (Arc 2003) and co-editor with John Kinsella of the anthology Vanishing Points: New Modernist Poems (Salt 2005). Between 1992 and 2002 he was co-organiser of the annual Cambridge Conference of Contemporary Poetry and since 1992 has been the publisher of Equipage which has published over 120 pamphlets of contemporary poetry. Rod is Reader in Modern English Literature at Cambridge University and a Fellow of Jesus College. He has published monographs on Dickens Emily Bronte and Henry Green; and The Descent of Language (1993); has co-written with Sophie Gilmartin Thomas Hardy's Shorter Fiction (EUP 2007); has edited essay collections on contemporary fiction violence and avant-garde art fiction of the 1940s and Australian poetry. He has also curated many exhibitions of contemporary art since 2003 and has made several films with the artist Marc Atkins (soundingpolefilms) as well as the text + image publication Still Moving (London: Veer Publications 2014). He was a recipient of the Cholmondely Award for poetry in 2020.