Alan Jenkins (poet) explained

Alan Jenkins
Birth Date:	1955
Birth Place:	Kingston upon Thames, England
Nationality:	British
Education:	London Nautical School
Alma Mater:	University of Sussex
Genre:	Poetry
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Awards:	Eric Gregory Award, Forward Poetry Prize, Cholmondeley Award

Alan Jenkins (born 1955) is an English poet.

Life

Jenkins was born in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, brought up on the outskirts of London in Richmond, and educated at the University of Sussex. He has worked for The Times Literary Supplement since 1980, first as poetry and fiction editor, and then as deputy editor. He was also a poetry critic for The Observer, and the Sunday Independent from 1985 to 1990. He edited Essential Reading: Selected Poems of Peter Reading, 1986, and Collected Poems of Ian Hamilton, 2009.^[1]

He has taught creative writing for the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Arvon Foundation, the Poetry Society, London, and at the American University in Paris. He was a judge for the Christopher Tower Poetry Prizes.^[2] From 2015 to 2018 he was Poet in Residence at St. John's College, University of Cambridge.^{[3] [4] [5]}

Awards

• 1981 Eric Gregory Award
• 1994 Forward Poetry Prize, for Harm
• 2000 shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize, Poetry Book Society Choice, for The Drift
• 2005 shortlisted for the Forward Poetry Prize, for A Shorter Life
• 2006 Cholmondeley Award^[6]

Works

• Web site: Street Life . The Poem . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20081231145549/http://www.thepoem.co.uk/poems/jenkins.htm . 2008-12-31 .

Poetry

• Book: The Hot-House . Chatto & Windus. 1988. 9780701133122. 993149576 .
• Book: Greenheart . Chatto & Windus. 1990 .
• Book: Harm . Chatto & Windus. 1994 .
• Book: The Drift . Chatto & Windus. 2000 .
• Book: A Short History of Snakes: New and Collected Poems . . 2001 . 978-0-8021-3811-8 . 45714829.
• Book: The Little Black Book . Illustrated by Robert McNab . Cargo Press. 2001 . 9781899980093 . 49949173.
• Book: A Shorter Life . Chatto & Windus. 2005. 9780701178086. 57200164 .
• Book: Drunken Boats . Illustrated by William Pownall . Sylph Editions/AUP. 2008. 9780955296345 . 185081766.
• Book: The Lost World . Clutag Press. 2010 .
• Book: Blue Days . Illustrated by William Pownall . Redstone Press. 2010.
• Book: Revenants . Clutag Press. 2013 .
• Book: Paper-Money Lyrics . Grey Suit Editions. 2014 .
• Book: Marine (with John Kinsella) . Enitharmon. 2015 .
• Book: Five Poems . Clutag Press. 2015 .
• Book: White Nights . Sheep Meadow Press. 2018 .
• Book: Tidemarks . New Walk Editions. 2018 .
• Book: The Ghost Net . New Walk Editions. 2023 .

External links

• "Alan Jenkins", The British Council.
• David Harrolsson, "The Poetry of Alan Jenkins", Parameter Magazine

Notes and References

1. Web site: Alan Jenkins poet and author . 2009-05-30 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080609230655/http://www.cargo-press.co.uk/jenkins.html . 2008-06-09 . dead .
2. Web site: The Christopher Tower Poetry Prizes 2008 :: Change . 2009-05-30 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090415000449/http://www.towerpoetry.org.uk/prize/2008/index.html . 2009-04-15 . dead .
3. News: Flotsam on the human shore . D. J. Taylor . D. J. Taylor (writer) . The Guardian. 5 March 2005.
4. News: Books in Brief: Fiction & Poetry. Megan Harlan. 20 January 2002. The New York Times.
5. News: A Shorter Life by Alan Jenkins . Sean O'Brien . Sean O'Brien (writer) . 3 June 2005. The Independent .
6. Web site: Alan Jenkins - Literature. literature.britishcouncil.org. en. 2018-01-16.