Sandeep Parmar

Sandeep Parmar is a contemporary poet. Born in Nottingham, England, and raised in Southern California, she recently moved to Ithaca, New York, after living for a long time in London.^[1][2] Parmar was a professor of English Literature at the University of Liverpool and is now a Professor of Literatures in English at Cornell University. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature^[3] and the Royal Society of Arts.

She earned an MA from the University of East Anglia and a PhD from University College London.^[4]

Her poetry collections include The Marble Orchard (Shearsman 2012), Eidolon (Shearsman 2015) and Faust (Shearsman 2022). She is also the author of Reading Mina Loy's Autobiographies: Myth of the Modern Woman (Bloomsbury 2013), and the editor of The Collected Poems of Hope Mirrlees (Carcanet 2011) and Nancy Cunard's Selected Poems (Carcanet 2016).

See also

• British Poetry Revival
• Nancy Cunard
• Hope Mirrlees
• Mina Loy

External links

• Review of The Marble Orchard at Fortnightly Review
• Review of The Marble Orchard at The Guardian
• Review of Eidolon at Dundee University Review of the Arts
• Review of Eidolon at Stride Magazine
• Review of Eidolon at Mascara Literary Review
• Two poems by Parmar at Blackbox Manifold
• Poem recordings at The Poetry Archive
• Poems recordings at Archive of the Now
• 'Not a British Subject: Race and Poetry in the UK'
• Further publications by Sandeep Parmar

References

1. "Sandeep Parmar | Literatures in English".
2. "Liverpool University, Department of English".
3. "Parmar, Sandeep". Royal Society of Literature. 1 September 2023. Retrieved 29 June 2025.
4. "Sandeep Parmar". Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 10 January 2026.