Anthony Caleshu is the author of a novella, a critical monograph on the American poet James Tate, and two books of poetry, including Of Whales: In Print, in Paint, in Sea, in Stars, in Coin, in House, in Margins, which was named a 2010 Book of the Year by the Daily Telegraph. He is also a 2010 recipient of the Boston Review Poetry Prize. Caleshu serves as a professor of poetry at Plymouth University in southwest England and lives there and on Cape Cod.