Deryn Rees-Jones is Professor of Poetry at the University of Liverpool and codirects the Centre for New and International Writing. She is the editor of Pavilion Poetry. Her critical study Consorting with Angels and its companion anthology Modern Women Poets were published by Bloodaxe in 2005. Burying the Wren (Seren) was shortlisted for the 2012 T. S. Eliot Prize. Her Selected Poems is forthcoming from Seren in 2016.