John Blackmore Editor

T. L. Burton is an Emeritus Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Adelaide. He is co-editor of The Complete Poems of William Barnes, 3 vols (2013–) and the author of William Barnes’s Dialect Poems: A Pronunciation Guide (2010) and The Sound of William Barnes’s Dialect Poems, 3 vols (2013–17). Emma Mason is Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick. She has written widely on Christianity and literature, and, with Mark Knight, edits the New Directions in Religion and Literature series. Her most recent book is Christina Rossetti: Poetry, Ecology, Faith (2018). John Blackmore completed his PhD on nineteenth-century regional writing and nationhood at the University of Exeter in 2023. A researcher, singer-songwriter, and teacher, he has published in Victorian Literary Languages (2022), English (2024), the Thomas Hardy Journal (2024), and the William Barnes Newsletter (2025). His album, Beauty of Blackmore (2017), includes several musical settings of Barnes’s poems.