John Lucas (poet)

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John Lucas (born 1937) is a poet, critic, biographer, anthologist and literary historian. [1] He runs a poetry publishers called Shoestring Press, and he is the author of 92 Acharnon Street (Eland, 2007), [2] which won the Dolman Best Travel Book Award in 2008. [3]

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Biography

Lucas was born in Devon in 1937. He has taught English at universities throughout the world, and is Professor Emeritus at the Universities of Loughborough and Nottingham Trent. He has written and translated over forty books, including critical studies of Dickens, John Clare and Arnold Bennett, books on English poetry, an anthology of the works of Nancy Cunard, as well as a life of his maternal grandfather, which combines biography with social history. In 2010 he published Next Year Will Be Better: A Memoir of England in the 1950s. Since 2011, Lucas has also written several novels, including Waterdrops (2011). [4]

His collections of poetry include Studying Grosz on the Bus, winner of Aldeburgh Festival Poetry Prize, A World Perhaps: New & Selected Poems, Flute Music and Things to Say. He has also edited an anthology, The Isles of Greece, for Eland. For over ten years he was poetry reviewer for the New Statesman . [5] His most recent books include A World Perhaps: New and Selected Poems, The Radical Twenties: Writing, Politics, Culture, and The Good That We Do. [1]

Lucas plays jazz cornet and trumpet with the Nottingham-based Burgundy Street Jazzmen. In 1994 he founded Shoestring Press. [6]

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References

  1. 1 2 "John Lucas". Shoestring Press. Retrieved 15 September 2016.
  2. ↑ Murray, Nicholas (21 November 2007). "92 Acharnon Street by John Lucas" . The Independent. Archived from the original on 13 June 2022. Retrieved 15 September 2016.
  3. ↑ Kerr, Michael (8 July 2008). "Dolman Best Travel Book Award 2008". The Telegraph. Retrieved 15 September 2016.
  4. ↑ "Margaret Harkness". London Fictions. Retrieved 15 September 2016.
  5. ↑ "92 Acharnon Street". fishpond.com.au. Retrieved 15 September 2016.
  6. ↑ "Interview with Jenny Swann and John Lucas". nottinghamcityofliterature.com. Retrieved 15 September 2016.
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