Luke Roberts is the author most recently of Rosa (Distance No Object, 2019) and Sorbet (Punch Press, 2018). He edited Desire Lines: Unselected Poems, 1966-2000 by Barry MacSweeney (Shearsman, 2018), and wrote Seditious Things: Barry MacSweeney and the Politics of Post-War British Poetry (Palgrave, 2017). His essays on John Wieners, Bill Griffiths, and Anna Mendelssohn have appeared or are forthcoming in Textual Practice and the Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry. He lives in London.