Tom ChiversPhD StudentTwitter: @thisisyogicProfileProfilePhD project In the Flow of Things: Encounters with the Mudlarks of the Thames Foreshore Supervisors Professor Alastair Owens, School of Geography, QMULDr Edward Legon, School of Business and Management, QMULDr Claire Harris, Museum of London ArchaeologyCatherine Gibbs, Museum of London Archaeology Funding AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award Academic background BA in English Language and Literature, University of Oxford, 2001-2004 Professional background I have been working in publishing and the performing arts for 18 years, alongside my practice as a poet and non-fiction writer. I am the founder and director of Penned in the Margins, and since 2004 have published over 90 books of poetry, fiction and non-fiction, and created numerous theatrical productions, touring shows and innovative arts projects. A member of Arts Council England’s National Portfolio from 2015 to 2023, our books have received major accolades including the Forward Prize, the Hawthornden Prize and the Rathbones Folio Award. From 2008 to 2011 I was co-director of London Word Festival, for which I was awarded a Paul Hamlyn Foundation Breakthrough Award. I started my career at arts consultancy the hub, and have worked with a variety of cultural organisations including Free Word Centre, where I was Digital Editor from 2011 to 2012. I have been a board member of not-for-profit organisations Inpress Books and The Poetry Book Society. Research interests London history, public archaeology, fluvial geomorphology, medieval literature, contemporary poetry, heritage studies, arts management. Publications As author London Clay: Journeys into the Deep City (Doubleday/Penguin, 2001)Dark Islands (Test Centre, 2015)Flood Drain (Annexe Press, 2014)How to Build a City (Salt Publishing, 2009)The Terrors (Nine Arches Press, 2009) As editor Marginalia: Ten Years of Poems & Texts from Penned in the Margins, Penned in the Margins, 2014Mount London: Ascents in the Vertical City, Penned in the Margins, 2014Adventures in Form: A Compendium of Poetic Forms, Rules & Constraints, Penned in the Margins, 2012Stress Fractures: Essays on Poetry, Penned in the Margins, 2010City State: New London Poetry, Penned in the Margins, 2009Generation Txt, Penned in the Margins, 2006 Poems anthologised in Poems of London (Everyman, 2021)Dear World & Everything In It (Bloodaxe Books, 2013)London: A History in Verse (Harvard University Press, 2012) Awards Eric Gregory Award, 2011Paul Hamlyn Foundation Breakthrough Award, 2009Research