@chrislloyd
Dr Chris Lloyd is a writer, podcaster and academic based in Manchester.
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researcher / academic
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Bluesky
Bluesky
he/him. associate prof, poet, writer, host of “books up close” and coeditor of seaford review journal 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🏴🇵🇸
Seaford Review
Seaford Review
The Seaford Review is an online magazine of new poetry, published three times a year. Click to read Seaford Review, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.
Diversifying and Decolonising the University
Podcast
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Podcast
Diversifying and Decolonising the University
Education Podcast · Monthly · This is a podcast from the University of Hertfordshire's 'Diversifying and Decolonising the University' group. Each episode will explore some element of diversification within higher education context…
Books Up Close
The Podcast
Podcast
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Podcast
The Podcast
Society & Culture Podcast · Updated fortnightly · Books Up Close is a show for writers, readers, and anyone who wants to know how texts get made. Listen as writer and academic Chris Lloyd performs a 'close reading' of some writing with the author the…
YouTube
YouTube
Books Up Close is a YouTube book review channel and podcast. Subscribe here to get reviews, short videos, and more. Subscribe to the podcast wherever you get your shows. Subscribe to the Substack too for more information.
Instagram
Instagram
Substack
Substack
Subscribe for Books Up Close content - reviews, podcast resources, general book chat. Click to read Books Up Close, a Substack publication. Launched a year ago.
TikTok
TikTok
Writing
A Queer Bestiary: Non/humans in Contemporary US Literature
A Queer Bestiary: Non/humans in Contemporary US Literature
The slippery and mutable boundaries between humans and nonhumans are frequently figured queerly in twenty-first-century U.S. literature. This innovative book...
Pick Up Your Feelings
Pick Up Your Feelings
Praise for Pick Up Your Feelings Christopher Lloyd’s sensitive, voice-driven poems explore desire and disruption: “you make this other world,” he writes, “to hide in faceless”. In lightly turning stanzas or in seductive columns of prose, these poems seek out a self – concealed and revealed, go
The Edinburgh Companion to the Millennial Novel
The Edinburgh Companion to the Millennial Novel
The Edinburgh Companion to the Millennial Novel
The Affects of Pedagogy in Literary Studies
The Affects of Pedagogy in Literary Studies
The Affects of Pedagogy in Literary Studies considers the ways in which teachers and students are affected by our encounters with literature and other cultural texts in the higher education classroom. The essays consider the range of emotions and affects elicited by teaching settings and practices: those moments when we in the university are caught off-guard and made uncomfortable, or experience joy, anger, boredom, and surprise. Featuring writing by teachers at different stages in their career,
Nothing is Quite Anything Yet - Poem (2026)
Nothing is Quite Anything Yet - Poem (2026)
Featuring prose, poetry, nonfiction, arts writing & visual arts from Wales.
Born - Short Story (2025)
Born - Short Story (2025)
You spend another morning on the beach, this time a different one. It’s meant to be queer but it’s like you’re the only gay around.
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