Kevin Davey is the author of English Imaginaries, an account of the transformation of Englishness in the twentieth century (2000). As a director of The Innovatory he mentored a large number of creative businesses in London before writing a trilogy of experimental fictions: Playing Possum (2017), Radio Joan (2020) and Toothpull of St Dunstan (2025), all published by Aaaargh! Press. These texts engage with turning points in English history, using peripheral spaces as a constraint, and twentieth century modernism—particularly Eliot, Pound, and Khlebnikov—as a compass.