External Examiners

Prof Andrew McNeillie (Exeter) 2010-2012
Photo credit: Jemimah Kuhfield

A writer, publisher and editor, Andrew is founder of the literary magazine Archipelago , which provided the inspiration for the MA Writing, Nature and Place, and of the imprint Clutag Press. A graduate of Oxford , he was Literature Editor at Oxford University Press before joining the University of Exeter in 2009. He has two new books, a memoir Once (2009)– about his childhood and youth – and a collection of poems In Mortal Memory to appear in February 2010. His acclaimed memoir An Aran Keening (Lilliput Press, 2002) is an account of his stay for just short of a year on Inis Mór, in 1968-69, one of the Aran Islands.

Prof Carol Rumens (Bangor/Hull) 2007-2009
Mr Bernard O'Donoghue (Wadham, Oxford) 2004-2006
Dr George Szirtes (East Anglia) 2001-2003
Prof Douglas Dunn (St. Andrews) 1998-2000