Alan Jenkins (poet)

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Alan Jenkins
Born1955
Kingston upon Thames, England
NationalityBritish
Alma materUniversity of Sussex
GenrePoetry
Notable awardsEric Gregory Award,
Forward Poetry Prize,
Cholmondeley Award

Alan Jenkins (born 1955) is an English poet.

Life[]

Jenkins was born in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, brought up on the outskirts of London in Richmond, and educated at the University of Sussex. He has worked for The Times Literary Supplement since 1981, first as poetry and fiction editor, and then as deputy editor. He was also a poetry critic for The Observer, and the Sunday Independent from 1985 to 1990. He edited the "Collected Poems of Ian Hamilton", released in 2009.[1]

He has taught creative writing for the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Arvon Foundation, the Poetry Society, London, and at the American University in Paris. He was a judge for the Christopher Tower Poetry Prizes.[2] From 2015 to 2018 he was Poet in Residence at St. John's College, University of Cambridge.[3][4][5]

Awards[]

Works[]

  • "Street Life". The Poem. Archived from the original on 2008-12-31.

Poetry[]

  • The Hot-House. Chatto & Windus. 1988. ISBN 9780701133122. OCLC 993149576.
  • Greenheart. Chatto & Windus. 1990.
  • Harm. Chatto & Windus. 1994.
  • The Drift. Chatto & Windus. 2000.
  • A Short History of Snakes: New and Collected Poems. Grove Press. 2001. ISBN 978-0-8021-3811-8. OCLC 45714829.
  • The Little Black Book. Illustrated by Robert McNab. Cargo Press. 2001. ISBN 9781899980093. OCLC 49949173.CS1 maint: others (link)
  • A Shorter Life. Chatto & Windus. 2005. ISBN 9780701178086. OCLC 57200164.
  • Drunken Boats. Illustrated by William Pownall. Sylph Editions/AUP. 2008. ISBN 9780955296345. OCLC 185081766.CS1 maint: others (link)
  • The Lost World. Clutag Press. 2010.
  • Blue Days. Illustrated by William Pownall. Redstone Press. 2010.CS1 maint: others (link)
  • Revenants. Clutag Press. 2013.
  • Marine (with John Kinsella). Enitharmon. 2015.
  • Paper-Money Lyrics. Grey Suit Editions. 2015.
  • Five Poems. Clutag Press. 2015.
  • White Nights. Sheep Meadow Press. 2018.
  • Tidemarks. New Walk Editions. 2018.

References[]

  1. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2008-06-09. Retrieved 2009-05-30.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-04-15. Retrieved 2009-05-30.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. ^ D. J. Taylor (5 March 2005). "Flotsam on the human shore". The Guardian.
  4. ^ Megan Harlan (20 January 2002). "Books in Brief: Fiction & Poetry". The New York Times.
  5. ^ Sean O'Brien (3 June 2005). "A Shorter Life by Alan Jenkins". The Independent.[dead link]
  6. ^ "Alan Jenkins - Literature". literature.britishcouncil.org. Retrieved 2018-01-16.

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