John Wilkinson
Author

Poems

THE WAKING MOMENT english

[from Proud Flesh] english

CAJOLING english

Translations: de

THE UPSTAIRS ROOM (Gospel Version) english

EXACTED english

ATTENTION AND INTERPRETATION english

Translations: de

[from SARN HELEN] english

ELEMENTARY FILM english

[from Reckitt's Blue] english

John Wilkinson
Author

About

* 20.04.1953, London, United Kingdom
lives in: Chicago, United States

John Wilkinson was born in London in 1953 and grew up in Cornwall and Devon. He gained a B.A. in English from the University of Cambridge in 1975 and passed a year at Harvard working on the poetry of John Wieners. Thereafter he trained as a psychiatric nurse and worked over twenty years in mental health services in England, being the Head of Mental Health and Assistant Director of Public Health at East London & The City Health Authority. From 2005-2010 Wilkinson was Writer in Residence and thereafter Research Professor in the Department of English at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana. Since 2010 he is a Professor of Practice of the Arts at the University of Chicago.

Wilkinson is an important representative of British experimental and avant-garde poetry who has published seven major collections of verse as well as critical articles on British and American poetry, some of which were collected in The Lyric Touch (2007). His wife is the literary critic Maud Ellmann.