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Author Description Alex Niven is an English writer, poet, editor, and former musician.<br /><br />Niven was a founding member of the indie band Everything Everything, with friends from Queen Elizabeth High School in Hexham, Northumberland. He played guitar with the band between 2007 and 2009 before leaving to study for a doctorate at St John's College, Oxford and pursue a writing career.<br /><br />Niven's first work of criticism, <i>Folk Opposition</i>, was published by Zero Books in 2011. The book attempted to reclaim a variety of folk culture motifs for the political left, and excoriated the "Green Tory" zeitgeist that had accompanied the ascendancy of David Cameron's Conservative Party in Britain in 2009-10. His second book, a study of the Oasis album <i>Definitely Maybe</i>, was published in Bloomsbury's 33⅓ series in 2014.<br /><br />Formerly assistant editor at <i>New Left Review</i> and editor-in-chief at <i>The Oxonian Review</i>, Niven has also written for The Guardian, The Independent, openDemocracy, Agenda, The Cambridge Quarterly, English Literary History, Oxford Poetry, Notes and Queries, The Quietus, and a number of collective blogs in addition to his own blog The Fantastic Hope. His first collection of poetry, <i>The Last Tape</i>, was published in 2014, and his poem "The Beehive" provided the epigraph to Owen Hatherley's 2012 architecture survey <i>A New Kind of Bleak</i>.<br /><br />He is currently Lecturer in English Literature at Newcastle University and an editor at Repeater Books.

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