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John Lawton Wilkinson (born 1953) is a contemporaryEnglishpoet.
From 1972 to 1975, he studied English atJesus College, Cambridge, United Kingdom, where he founded, with Charlie Bulbeck andCharles Lambert, the Blue Room, a society devoted to the propagation of poetry and the other fine arts.
His first publication,Of Western Limit (a collaboration withCharles Lambert), appeared in 1974, the year in which Wilkinson won the Chancellor's Medal for Poetry. He has published seven major collections of verse as well as critical articles on British and American poetry, some of which were collected inThe Lyric Touch (2007).
His most recent collections areReckitt's Blue (2013),Down to Earth (2008),Lake Shore Drive (2006),Contrivances (2003) andEffigies against the Light (2001); a chapbook titledIphigenia appeared in 2004, and his 1986 collection,Proud Flesh, was re-issued in 2005 with an introduction byDrew Milne. In 1992, his work "Hid Lip" appeared alongside works byStephen Rodefer andRod Mengham in a volume calledWriting Out of Character, published by Street Editions.Schedule of Unrest: Selected Poems appeared in 2014.
John Wilkinson has held a Frank Knox Fellowship atHarvard University, and was aFulbright Distinguished Scholar in 2003/04 at the Nathan S. Kline Institute. From 2007/08 he was Carl H. Pforzheimer Fellow at theNational Humanities Center in North Carolina. From 2005 to 2010 he was Writer in Residence and thereafter Research Professor in the Department of English at theUniversity of Notre Dame. In 2010 he moved to theUniversity of Chicago as Professor of Practice of the Arts.[1] He is married to the literary criticMaud Ellmann.
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