John Wilkinson (poet)

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John Wilkinson is a contemporary English poet, born in 1953. From 1972 to 1975, he studied English at Jesus College, Cambridge, United Kingdom, where he founded, with Charlie Bulbeck and Charles Lambert, the Blue Room, a society devoted to the propagation of poetry and the other fine arts. His first publication, Of Western Limit, (in collaboration with Charles Lambert) appeared in 1974, the year in which Wilkinson won the Chancellor's Medal for Poetry.

He is now a Poet in Residence at the University of Notre Dame, where he runs a workshop with graduate students in the MFA program.