His first book of poems, Oswald’s Book of Hours, is published by Smokestack and was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection in 2013 and the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry. Englaland, his second book of poems, will be published 2015, also by Smokestack. His novel, Ratmen, is published by Blackheath Books. The Poetry Review published Ely’s sequence of poems about werewolves in Spring 2014. He has just finished Made in Mexborough: Ted Hughes's South Yorkshire, a biographical work about Hughes’s neglected Mexborough period.