He moved to Wales at the age of seven, was educated at King Henry VIII School, Abergavenny, and read English at Leeds University.
He is author of three poetry collections: The Fossil Box (2007), concerned with the urgency of place and origins; Whiteout (2006), co-authored with Damian Walford Davies; and Wan-Hu's Flying Chair (2009), which won the 2010 Wales Book of the Year 'People's Choice' prize.
[1] In March 2012, new research on Keats's ode 'To Autumn', co-authored with Dr Jayne Archer and Professor Howard Thomas, both also at Aberystwyth University at that time, was widely reported.
Archival discoveries suggested that the 'stubble-plains' of Keats's ode 'To Autumn' were located on St Giles's Hill, to the east of the City of Winchester, with implications for a new political reading of the poem.
[2][3][4] The editor of the Daily Telegraph newspaper devoted 22 March 2012's editorial to an 'Ode to a Car Park'[5] In 2013, research by Marggraf Turley, Archer and Thomas on the importance of Shakespeare's business dealings as a grain merchant for such plays as King Lear and Coriolanus was widely reported.