Jeffrey Wainwright

Jeffrey Wainwright is a poet whose SELECTED POEMS(1985), THE RED-HEADED PUPIL(1994) and OUT OF THE AIR(1999) are published by Carcanet Press.
   
He has translated plays by Péguy, Claudel, Corneille and the text of his version of Bernard-Marie Koltès' IN THE SILENCE OF COTTON FIELDS appears in Koltès: Plays 2 (Methuen 2004).

A book on the purposes and styles of poetry, POETRY THE BASICS, was published by Routledge in April 2004.

His most recent book is ACCEPTABLE WORDS: ESSAYS ON THE POETRY OF GEOFFREY HILL, Manchester University Press December 2005. ISBN 0-7190-6754-5. After an overview essay, the book includes essays on the different volumes of Hill's work up to and including SCENES FROM COMUS (2005). There is also discussion of work by Hill yet to appear in book form. More details at www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk.

Recently Jeffrey Wainwright completed work on a new collection of his own poetry, CLARITY OR DEATH! to be published by Carcanet Press. Poems from this collection so far published are ‘A point is never alone’, STAND, Vol 5 No 2, and ‘We may be able to reduce the number of different things (i- v)’, PN REVIEW 165, September 2005.

A short article - 'Poets I Go Back To' - appears in the current issue of THE NORTH (no 38) - www.poetrybusiness.co.uk - in which he writes about Walt Whitman, James Wright and Ken Smith.

FORTHCOMING: December: 'Milton's Paradise Lost', in THE READER - www.thereader.co.uk.
Spring 2007: new poems and an essay on the poetry of ROY FISHER for STAND magazine.

For eleven years he was northern theatre critic for The Independent, reviewing productions across the region from Birmingham to Lancaster. He has also contributed to BBC Radio arts programmes.

He is Professor in the Department of English at Manchester Metropolitan University and teaches at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. He gives public readings and talks about poetry. Please contact jeffwainwright@supanet.com.

OTHER RECENT PUBLICATION: 'With a dewdrop on his nose': A piece on the poetry of KEN SMITH, STAND magazine, Vol 6 No 1 March-April 2005, from stand@leeds.ac.uk