Faber Book of Vernacular Verse

Tom Paulin was born in Leeds in 1949 but grew up in Belfast, and was educated at the universities of Hull and Oxford. He has published nine collections of poetry, of which the most recent is Love's Bonfire (2012), as well as several critical works including The Day-Star of Liberty: William Hazlitt's Radical Style (1998) and Crusoe's Secret: The Aesthetics of Dissent (2005).