Steve Ely

Steve Ely is a poet, novelist and academic, based at the University of Huddersfield, where he is Director of the Ted Hughes Network. He has written many books of poetry, including the award winning/nominated books Oswald’s Book of Hours, Incendium Amoris, The European Eel & Eely. He has also written a novel, Ratmen, and Ted Hughes’s South Yorkshire, a biographical work about the former poet laureate’s formative years. His most recent books of poems (all 2024) are Eely, Orasaigh, and the edited anthology, Apocalyptic Landscape. His current projects are White Pony, a collaboration with the artist Alan Parker based on Goethe’s Erl-King, and a novel, The Quoz, a folk-horrific love story set in the Sex Pistols summer of 1977.