Background
Lindop was born in Liverpool and studied at Wadham College, Oxford, where he read English.
Lindop was born in Liverpool and studied at Wadham College, Oxford, where he read English.
He was Professor of Romantic and Early Victorian Studies at the University of Manchester. As a student at Oxford University, Lindop began writing poetry and working with Michael Schmidt, a fellow undergraduate, to co-edit Carcanet (then a magazine and not a publishing house as it now is). Lindop is a frequent contributor to the Times Literary Supplement, reviewing poetry, biography, fiction, exhibitions and theatre.
He also writes essays and reviews for a range of magazines including The London Magazine, Stand, PN Review, Poetry London and Temenos Academy Review.
Lindop held the post of editor at Temenos Academy Review from 2000 to 2003.