Sean Ashton writes fiction, art criticism and poetry. From 2007-11, he was associate editor of
MAP Magazine, and from 2012–17 wrote for
Art Review. His 2007 book
Sunsets (Alma Books) is a collection of reviews of imaginary artworks and books. His novel
Living in a Land (Ma Bibliothèque 2017) is a fictional memoir written in sentences constructed in the negative. His book
Sampler (Valley Press, 2020,
https://www.valleypressuk.com/book/141/sampler) is a selection of pieces from an imaginary encyclopaedia written entirely by poets. A vinyl LP of excerpts from
Living in a Land has been issued with the journal
Inscription (Information as Material, 2020). He has also contributed poems, essays and stories to many other publications, including
Oxford Poetry,
Poetry London,
Poetry Ireland, the philosophy journal
Collapse and the book
Walking Cities. In 2017 he was awarded second prize in the International Awards for Art Criticism.