Charles Tomlinson
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Alfred Charles Tomlinson, CBE (born January 8, 1927) is a major British poet and translator, and also an academic and artist. He was born and raised in the city of Stoke-on-Trent, and read English at Queens' College, Cambridge. After leaving university he spend a year in Italy and then taught in a primary school. He later became Emeritus Professor of English Poetry at the University of Bristol, England.
His first book of poetry was published in 1951, and his Collected Poems was published by the Oxford University Press in 1985, followed by the Selected Poems: 1955-1997 in 1997. Since 2000 he has published two collections, Skywriting (2004) and Cracks in the Universe (2006), both published by Carcanet in their Oxford Poets series.
He edited the Oxford Book of Verse in English Translation and the Selected Poems of William Carlos Williams.
He is also an artist, and In Black and White: The Graphics of Charles Tomlinson, with an introduction by Nobel prize-winner Octavio Paz, was published in 1976.
In 1991 he recorded all of his published poetry for Keele University. He was awarded a CBE by the Queen in 2002. He currently lives with his family near Wotton-under-Edge.
[edit] Further reading
- O'Gorman, Kathleen. Charles Tomlinson: Man and Artist. University of Missouri Press, 1988.
- Charles Tomlinson Reads His Stoke Poems, Keele University 1994. (Audio recordings of his poetry about Stoke-on-Trent).
[edit] External links
 |
This article about an English poet is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
