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- John Whitworth (11 December 1945 - 20 April 2019) was a British poet. Born in India in 1945, he began writing poetry at Merton College, Oxford. He went on to win numerous prizes and publish in many highly regarded venues.
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John Whitworth (11 December 1945 - 20 April 2019) was a British poet. Born in India in 1945, he began writing poetry at Merton College, Oxford. He went on to win numerous prizes and publish in many highly regarded venues.
He was the author of ten collections of his own poetry, most recently Joy in the Morning (Kelsay, 2016). He also wrote a book about writing poetry—cleverly titled Writing Poetry (A&C Black, 2001)—and was the editor of the anthology Making Love to Marilyn Monroe: The Faber Book of Blue Verse (Faber, 2006).
John Whitworth (1945-2019) was an English poet who was born in India. He began writing as an undergraduate at Oxford, and published nine collections, from Unhistorical Fragments (Secker & Warburg, 1980) to Girlie Gangs (Enitharmon, 2011). Whitworth’s poems have appeared in Poetry Review, London Magazine, The Spectator, and in major magazines ...
John Whitworth. Whitworth's poetry career began at Merton College, Oxford, where he earned an MA and a B.Phil in English Literature. After graduation he taught a master class at the University of Kent, tutored foreign students, taught Creative Writing, and conducted poetry workshops and readings in hundreds of primary schools.
with. John Whitworth is a British poet who has been widely published at home as well as Down Under. A straight-talking poet who expresses his views unapologetically, Whitworth has no use for the sort of poetry that revels in amorphousness, "that dreadful formless way invented by Walt Whitman and carried on by so many boring old farts (and young ...
Jun 5, 2019 · Telegraph Obituaries 5 June 2019 • 5:52am. John Whitworth, who has died aged 73, wrote poetry that was both popular and proficient. The late Les Murray described him as a “master of metrical...
John Whitworth (1945-2019) And one more toast to God the Ghost, the Holy Three-in-one. We are the sheep the blessed sheep the Shepherd has selected. And now we stroll the holy hills, Eternity before us. Where Satan and his horrid band in deep damnation dwell. And Paradise is twice as nice when you can see the sinners.
