Tim Cresswell is a geographer and poet who has been widely published in poetry magazines in the United Kingdom, Ireland, the USA and Canada including The Moth, The Rialto, The North, Poetry Wales, Agenda, Riddlefence and On Site Review. His first collection, Soil, was published by Penned in the Margins (London) in July 2013. His second poetry book — a book-length sequence set in Svalbard called Fence is being published by Penned in the Margins in 2015.He is also the author of five books on the themes of place and mobility including, most recently, Place: An Introduction (Blackwell 2014).