- Anthony Thwaite
Anthony Simon Thwaite, OBE, (born 1930 in
Chester ) is an English poet and writer. He is married to the writerAnn Thwaite . He was awarded the OBE in 1992, for services to poetry. He was mainly brought up inYorkshire and currently lives inNorfolk .During
World War II he stayed with relations in theUnited States . He was educated atKingswood School , Bath (1944-49) and subsequently read English atChrist Church, Oxford .He taught at
Tokyo University from 1955 and 1957, and for a year in 1985. He has worked forBBC Radio , the "New Statesman " as literary editor, and from 1973 to 1985 as editor of "Encounter" withMelvin J. Lasky . He is one of the literary executors ofPhilip Larkin , and the major editor of Larkin's work.Works
*"Anthony Thwaite" (
Fantasy Press 1953). Fantasy Poets 17
*"Oxford Poetry 1954" (1954) editor withJonathan Price
*"Poems" (1957) Privately Printed in Tokyo
*"Essays on Contemporary English Poetry" (1957)
*"Home Truths" (1957) poems
*"Contemporary English Poetry - An Introduction" (1961)
*"New Poems 1961: A P.E.N Anthology of Contemporary Poetry" (1961) editor withHilary Corke andWilliam Plomer
*"The Owl in the Tree" (1963) poems
*"Japan in Color" (1967)
*"The Stones of Emptiness : Poems 1963-66".(1967)
*"Deserts of Hesperides: an Experience in Libya" (1969)
*"At Dunkeswell Abbey" (1970) broadside poem
*"Penguin Modern Poets 18" (1970) withA. Alvarez andRoy Fuller
*"Points" (1972)
*"Inscriptions, Poems 1967–72" (1973)
*"Jack" (1973) poem
*"Poetry Today 1960-1973" (1973)
*"Roloff Beny In Italy" (1974) withPeter Porter ,Gore Vidal
*"New Confessions" (1974) poems
*"The English Poets - From Chaucer to Edward Thomas" (1974) withPeter Porter
*"Beyond the Inhabited World: Roman Britain" (1977)
*"A Portion for Foxes" (1977) poems
*"Twelve Poems" (1978)
*"Twentieth Century English Poetry : An Introduction" (1978)
*"New Poetry 4" (1978)Arts Council anthology, editor withFleur Adcock
*"Victorian Voices" (1980) poems
*"Odyssey : Mirror of the Mediterranean" (1981)
*"Larkin at Sixty" (1982) editor
*"The Penguin Book of Japanese Verse" (1983) editor with Geoffrey Bownas
*"Telling Tales" (1983)
*"Poems 1953 –1983" (1984)
*"Six Centuries of Verse" (1984) editor
*"Poetry Today : A Critical Guide to British Poetry 1960-1984" (1985)
*"Letter from Tokyo" (1987)
*"Fourteen Poems Collected Poems of Philip Larkin" (1989) editor
*"Selected Letters of Philip Larkin" (1992) editor
*"Poetry Today: A critical guide to British poetry 1960-1995" (1996)
*"R. S. Thomas - Everyman's Poetry" (1996) editor
*"Selected Poems 1956-1996" (1997)
*"Longfellow" (1997) editor
*"Anthony Thwaite in Conversation" (1999) with Peter Dale and Ian Hamilton
*"Paeans forPeter Porter " (1999) editor
*"High Windows by Philip Larkin" (2000) editor
*"A Different Country" (Enitharmon Press 2000) poems
*"George MacBeth – Selected Poems" (2002) editor
*"Further Requirements: Interviews, Broadcasts, Statements and Book Reviews, 1952-85, by Philip Larkin" (2002) editor
*"A Move in the Weather: Poems 1994-2002" (Enitharmon Press , 2003)References
*Hans Osterwalder (1991) "British Poetry Between the Movement and Modernism: Anthony Thwaite and Philip Larkin"
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