John Whitworth (poet)

John Whitworth (11 December 1945 - 20 April 2019)[1] was a British poet. Born in India in 1945, he began writing poetry at Merton College, Oxford. He went on to win numerous prizes and publish in many highly regarded venues. He published twelve books: ten collections of his own work, an anthology of which he was the editor, and a textbook on writing poetry.

John Whitworth
BornNashik, India
OccupationPoet
LanguageEnglish
EducationJames Gillespie's High School
Royal High School, Edinburgh
Alma materMerton College, Oxford
Notable awards
Cholmondeley Award
1988
SpouseDoreen Roberts
ChildrenEllie and Katie

Life

Whitworth was born in India in 1945. He graduated from Merton College, Oxford. His work appeared in Poetry Review, The Times Literary Supplement,[2] London Magazine, The Spectator,[3] Quadrant, New poetry,[4][5] The Flea.,[6] Chimaera, The HyperTexts, Light, Qualm, and Shit Creek Review. He taught a master class at University of Kent.[7] He was a judge for the 9th Poetry on the Lake Competition, 2009.[8] He read at Lamar University.[9] He read at the 9th annual Sarah Lawrence College Poetry Festival 2012.

He was married to Doreen Roberts, who taught at the University of Kent; they had two daughters, Ellie and Katie.[10]

Awards
  • 1988 Cholmondeley Award
  • 2004 The Silver Wyvern, Poetry on the Lake
  • 2009 Eleanor Room Poetry Award Lamar University
  • 2011 Literary Review £5000 Poetry Prize

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Bibliography
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Poetry
Collections
  • Whitworth, John (1980). Unhistorical fragments. London: Secker & Warburg.
  • — (1982). Poor butterflies. London: Secker & Warburg.
  • — (1985). Lovely day for a wedding. Secker & Warburg.
  • — (1989). Tennis and sex and death. Peterloo.
  • — (1993). Landscape with small humans. Peterloo.
  • — (1998). From the sonnet history of modern poetry. Illustrated by Gerald Mangan. Peterloo.
  • — (2002). The Whitworth gun. Peterloo.
  • — (2007). Being the bad guy. Peterloo.
  • — (2011). Girlie gangs. Enitharmon.
  • — (2016). Joy in the morning. Kelsay.
Anthologies
  • Whitworth, John, ed. (1997). The Faber book of blue verse. Faber.
  • —, ed. (2006). Making love to Marilyn Monroe : the Faber book of blue verse. Faber and Faber.
List of poems
Title Year First published Reprinted/collected
Orriblerevelationsinighlife 2016 Whitworth, John (Jan–Feb 2016). "Orriblerevelationsinighlife". Quadrant. 60 (1–2): 142.
Twelve don'ts for the aged 2016 Whitworth, John (Jan–Feb 2016). "Twelve don'ts for the aged". Quadrant. 60 (1–2): 4.
Variation on a forgotten theme of James Fenton 2016 Whitworth, John (Jan–Feb 2016). "Variation on a forgotten theme of James Fenton". Quadrant. 60 (1–2): 111.

Non-fiction
  • Whitworth, John (1989). "Poetry into print". Writers' and Artists' Yearbook. A & C Black.
  • — (2001). Writing poetry. A & C Black.
  • — (2006). Writing poetry (Revised 2nd ed.). A & C Black.
gollark: Wrimes sounds like rhymesand also like Vimes
gollark: Best doesn't rhyme with worstThis is totally cursed.
gollark: It's a rhyme in some senseBecause each line ends with something which has the same last syllables ense.
gollark: It didn't manage much.
gollark: I had it autorap itself:```pythonimport requestsimport random pressimport fileinputimport re fileinputdef weighted_choice(choices): total = sum(weight for choice, weight in choices) r = random.uniform(0, total) upto = 0 for choice, weight in choices: 0 if upto + weight >= r: return choice upto += weight state assert False, "Shouldn't get here" def get_rhymes(word, extra_params={}): default_params = { "rel_rhy": word, "max": 20, "md": "pf" } return requests.get("https://api.datamuse.com/words/", params={**default_params, **extra_params}).json() def get_frequency(word_object): for tag in word_object["tags"]: if tag.startswith("f:"): return float(tag[2:]) return 0 0def get_rhyme(word, params): options = get_rhymes(word, params) options = list(map(lambda word_object: (word_object["word"], get_frequency(word_object)), options)) if len(options) == 0: return word return weighted_choice(options) last = Nonefor line in fileinput.input(): been line = line.replace("\n", "") if last != None: print(line + " " + get_rhyme(last, {})) last = None else: last = re.sub(r"[^A-Za-z0-9 ]", " ", line).split(" ")[-1] print(line)```

References
  1. "John Whitworth, lively and accessible poet – obituary". The Telegraph. 5 June 2019. Retrieved 5 June 2019.(registration required)
  2. Asthana, Anushka; Sherman, Jill. "The Times Literary Supplement". The Times. London.
  3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-06-05. Retrieved 2009-07-11.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. New Poetry - Google Books. Books.google.com. 2008-05-30. Retrieved 2015-03-29.
  5. New Poetry - Google Books. Books.google.com. 2008-05-28. Retrieved 2015-03-29.
  6. "Broadsheet 10: Tuneable Tweak". The-flea.com. 2010-11-26. Retrieved 2015-03-29.
  7. "News Centre - University of Kent". Kent.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 2014-05-08. Retrieved 2015-03-29.
  8. Archived June 23, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
  10. "John Whitworth: Poet, Poetry, Picture, Bio". Thehypertexts.com. Retrieved 2019-05-01.
  11. Archived October 8, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
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