Alex Davis is Professor of English at University College Cork. He is the author of A Broken Line: Denis Devlin and Irish Poetic Modernism (2000) and many essays in anglophone poetry from decadence to the present day. He is co-editor, with Lee M. Jenkins, of Locations of Literary Modernism: Region and Nation in British and American Modernist Poetry (2000) and The Cambridge Companion to Modernist Poetry (2007), and, with Patricia Coughlan, of Modernism and Ireland: The Poetry of the 1930s (1995).