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Piette, Adam
Adam Piette is Professor of Modern Literature at the University of Sheffield. He is the co-editor of the international contemporary poetry journal Blackbox Manifold with Alex Houen. He is author of Remembering and the Sound of Words: Mallarmé, Proust, Joyce, Beckett, Imagination at War: British Fiction and Poetry, 1939–1945 , and The Literary Cold War, 1945 to Vietnam . He edited the special issue of Translation and Literature on “Modernism and Translation”, The Salt Companion to Peter Robinson with Katy Price (2007) and The Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century British and American War Literature with Mark Rawlinson (2012). His poetry pamphlet nights as dreaming was published by Constitutional Information / earthbound press in 2023. His new poetry collections are: CCCLXV (Crater Press, 2025), and Lies Blurring Here (Broken Sleep, 2026). Forthcoming in 2026 will be an edition of the work of Australian poet Catherine Vidler’s work, co-edited with Amelia Dale and A.J. Carruthers, with Puncher & Wattman.