Natalie Pollard specialises in British literature from 1960-present, especially English and Scottish poetry. She has published on the contemporary English poet Geoffrey Hill, the Scottish poet W.S. Graham, and the South African writer J.M. Coetzee. She is currently editing a collection of critical essays on the Scottish poet, Don Paterson. She also writes reviews for the Times Literary Supplement's page, 'Poetry: In Brief'. She gained her PhD from the University of York in 2009 and went on to teach and research modern literature at The University of Exeter, The University of Edinburgh, and The University of Cape Town. She is currently a British Academy Research Fellow at the University of Reading and is writing a new book entitled Lyric Economies: Poetry in the Marketplace.