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Born London 1953, and grew up in the West Country. After Cambridge and Harvard Universities, trained as a psychiatric nurse in Birmingham and worked in mental health, latterly with strategic and performance management responsibilities for mental health services in East London and outer North-East London boroughs. Moved to University of Notre Dame, Indiana, as Poet in Residence at the Keough Institute for Irish Studies in January 2005. Teaches literary studies and creative writing. Married to the literary critic Maud Ellmann; father of Francis Hunt by a previous marriage.
Recordings of John reading from his book Down to Earth are available at the National Humanities Center.
Keough Institute for Irish Studies
University of Notre Dame
422 Flanner Hall
Notre Dame,
IN 46556
USA
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Books and Pamphlets:
- Useful Reforms (Richmond, Surrey: Arnica Press, 1976)
- Aquamarine (Cambridge: Avocado Salad, 1976)
- The Central Line. A Novel (Cambridge: infernal methods, 1976)
- Tracts of the Country(London: Oasis Books, 1977)
- Pornography. An indiscrete series (Cambridge: Sidon Industrial, 1977)
- Recent History (London & Southampton: infernal methods, 1978)
- Maudie's Umbrella (Horsham, Sussex: The Causeway Press, 1978)
- Swarf (Cambridge: Sidon Industrial, 1979)
- Clinical Notes (Liverpool: Delires, 1980)
- Proud Flesh (Lodz: Equofinality, and Liverpool: Delires, 1986). Reissued with text corrected, introduction by Drew Milne (Applecross, Western Australia, and Great Wilbraham: Salt Publishing, 2005)
- Bones of Contention (Kenilworth: Prest Roots Press, 1988)
- The Speaking Twins (Peterborough: Spectacular Diseases, 1990)
- Stages Along the Lichway (Lewes: Silver Hounds/Ferry Press, 1991)
- The Nile (Cambridge: Equipage, 1992)
- Writing out of Character. By John Wilkinson, Stephen Rodefer, Rod Mengham (Cambridge: Street Editions, 1992)
- Torn Off A Strip (Cambridge: Equipage, 1994)
- Chalone (Kenilworth: Prest Roots 2, 1994)
- Flung Clear: Poems in six books (Brighton: Parataxis Editions, 1994)
- Sarn Helen (Cambridge: Equipage, 1997)
- Reverses (Cambridge: Equipage, 1999)
- Oort's Cloud. Earlier Poems (Cambridge: Barque Press, and Honolulu: subpress, 1999)
- Effigies Against the Light ( Applecross, Western Australia, and Great Wilbraham: Salt Publishing, 2001)
- Signs of an Intruder (Cambridge: Parataxis Editions, 2001)
- Contrivances ( Applecross, Western Australia, and Great Wilbraham: Salt Publishing, 2003)
- Iphigenia (Cambridge: Barque Press, 2004)
- Lake Shore Drive (Salt 2006)
The webpages associated with the Salt titles all feature MP3 files and brief video interviews.
Sample text
Taking Liberties
There was this tiny warp collapsed the sky,
stove the stomach in. This, not to trifle with,
brought to heel the ambient usual,
filling space where it might most matter:
there's a blind eye between us, fluent
smut just off-centre --
Such times, with unmitigated satire,
intensified the small thing keeping step,
a full tilt orchestra
pursued the inclusive chord, ratcheted its din
to screaming point, lugged away cloud.
A fiery babe revealed.
You'd come that close. But then the revealed
will draw down subfusc
In one sense, a whitening disk.
It couldn't settle, finally. A dropped
screw pulverized the milky filter. I see.
Lightning will have assailed me in my cradle.
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