John Wilkinson 
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THE WAKING MOMENT angleščina

[from Proud Flesh] angleščina

CAJOLING angleščina

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to poem

THE UPSTAIRS ROOM (Gospel Version) angleščina

EXACTED angleščina

ATTENTION AND INTERPRETATION angleščina

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[from SARN HELEN] angleščina

ELEMENTARY FILM angleščina

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John Wilkinson 
Author

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* 20.04.1953, London, Velika Britanija
živi v: Chicago, Združene države Amerike

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.

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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.

Objave
  • Of Western Limit

    a collaboration with Charles Lambert

    1974

  • Proud Flesh

    1986

  • Writing Out of Character

    together with works by Stephen Rodefer and Rod Mengham

    Street Editions, 1992

  • Oorts Cloud

    Earlier Poems

    London: Barque Press, 1999

  • Effigies against the Light

    2001

  • Contrivances

    2003

  • Iphigenia

    a chapbook

    London: Barque Press, 2004

  • Lake Shore Drive

    2006

  • The Lyric Touch

    collection of articles

    2007

  • Down to Earth

    2008

  • Reckitt's Blue

    Seagull books, 2013

  • Schedule of Unrest

    Selected Poems

    Norfolk: Salt Publishing, 2014

Nagrade
  • 1974 Chancellor's Medal for Poetry