John Whitworth (poet)

John Whitworth (born 1945, India) is a British poet.

Life

He graduated from Merton College, Oxford. His work appears in Poetry Review, The Times Literary Supplement, London Magazine, The Spectator, Quadrant, New poetry, and The Flea. He taught a master class at University of Kent. He was a judge for the 9th Poetry on the Lake Competition, 2009. He read at Lamar University. He read at the 9th annual Sarah Lawrence College Poetry Festival 2012.

He lives with his wife Doreen Roberts, who taught at the University of Kent, and their daughters Ellie and Katie, in Canterbury.

Awards

• 1988 Cholmondeley Award
• 2004 The Silver Wyvern, Poetry on the Lake
• 2009 Eleanor Room Poetry Award Lamar University
• 2011 Literary Review £5000 Poetry Prize

Works

Poetry

• Unhistorical Fragments. Secker & Warburg. 1980. ISBN 0-436-57095-5. 
• Poor Butterflies. Secker. 1982. ISBN 978-0-436-57096-4. 
• Lovely Day for a Wedding. Secker. 1985. ISBN 978-0-436-57097-1. 
• Tennis and Sex and Death. Peterloo. 1989. ISBN 978-1-871471-04-5. 
• Landscape with Small Humans. Peterloo. 1993. ISBN 978-1-871471-40-3. 
• Gerald Mangan, ed. (1998). From The Sonnet History of Modern Poetry. Peterloo. ISBN 978-1-871471-79-3. 
• The Whitworth Gun. Peterloo. 2002. ISBN 978-1-904324-04-1. 
• Being the Bad Guy. Peterloo. 2007. ISBN 978-1-904324-37-9. 
• Girlie Gangs. Enitharmon. 2011. ISBN 978-1-907587-05-4. 
• Joy in the Morning. Kelsay. 2016. ISBN 978-1-945752-22-3. 

Anthologies

• John Whitworth, ed. (1997). The Faber Book of Blue Verse. Faber. ISBN 978-0-571-14095-4. 
• John Whitworth, ed. (2006). Making Love to Marilyn Monroe. Faber and Faber. ISBN 978-0-571-22827-0. 

Non-fiction

• "Poetry into print". Writers' and Artists' Yearbook. A & C Black. 1989. ISBN 978-0-7136-3189-0. 
• Writing Poetry. A & C Black. 2001. ISBN 978-0-7136-5822-4.  (Revised 2nd edition) (A&C Black 2006)