Dr Daniel John Pilkington is an academic researcher in poetry and poetics.

His PhD was on the relationship between poetry and magic, specifically in the context of contemporary US poetry. He is currently working on his first academic monograph.

Daniel’s broader research interests include the history of visual poetry, the intersection between literature and visual art, and the relationship between poetry and spirituality.

Essays and Interviews:

Occult Poetics & (Soma)tic Rituals: an interview with CAConrad
An Interview with Ariana Reines
An Expanded Notion of ‘Kerning’: an exhibition essay on Australian text-based art