Selected Poems

Wainwright Jeffrey

This collection of Jeffrey Wainwright's poetry brings together most of his first collection, a Poetry Book Society recommendation, and much of what he has written since that time. The poems confront a wide range of intellectual, personal, and political experiences.

About the Author

Jeffrey Wainwright was born in Stoke-on-Trent in 1944 and was educated locally and at the University of Leeds. He has taught at the University of Wales, Long Island University in Brooklyn and for many years at the Manchester Metropolitan University where he was Professor in the Department of English and its Writing School until 2008.

His first poetry collection was published by Northern House in 1971 and first full book, "Heart's Desire", by Carcanet in 1978. Carcanet Press also publish his "Selected Poems" (1985), "The Red-Headed Pupil" (1994), "Out of the Air" (1999) and "Clarity or Death!" (2008). He has translated plays by Peguy, Claudel and Corneille for BBC Radio 3 and his version of Bernard-Marie Koltes' In the Silence of Cotton Fields was broadcast in March 1999. The play has subsequently been performed by the Actors Touring Company and published by Methuen.

Jeffrey Wainwright has published widely on poetry, including Poetry: "The Basics" (Routledge 2004) and his book on the poetry of Geoffrey Hill, "Acceptable Words" (Manchester University Press, 2005).

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