early-career and deeply canonical, out-there and close to the heart, outspoken and close to the vest, get attention in Connolly’s personal, thoughtful, pellucid language. The Anglophone world needs more poetry critics so careful, so thoughtful, so able to speak their minds." She is currently working on a book about AIDS Poetry. She is a regular contributor to publications such as the Times Literary Supplement, Poetry (magazine) and The London Evening Standard. Her brother, Pete Connolly, is a British professional skateboarder who holds the Guinness World Record for speed longboarding. In September 2017 he skated downhill at 91.17 mph. Selected works Ranches of Isolation: Transatlantic Poetry (MadHat Press, 2018) "Transatlantic Poetics: An Autobiography", Plume Poetry, 2017 "Two Genealogical Elegies for Seamus Heaney", Literary Imagination (Oxford University Press, 2017) Grief and Meter: Elegies for Poets after Auden (University of Virginia Press, 2016) "Breaking Bread With the Dead: W. H. Auden, Seamus Heaney and Yeats's Influence", Yeats Annual 17, Palgrave MacMillan References External links "Professor Shares Her Passion for Poetry" http://thedailycougar.com/2010/03/09/professor-shares-her-passion-for-poetry/ Plume Poetry Author Page https://plumepoetry.com/author/connolly-sally/ 1976 births 20th-century British writers Alumni of University College London Harvard University alumni Kennedy Scholarships University of Houston faculty Living people 21st-century British women writers 20th-century British women writers