Collection: Jeffrey Wainwright
Jeffrey Wainwright was born in Stoke-on-Trent in 1944. In 1999 he was made Professor of English at Manchester Metropolitan University, a post from which he retired in March 2008 to concentrate on writing. His poetry collections to date are: Heart's Desire (Carcanet, 1978), Selected Poems (Carcanet Press, 1985), The Red-Headed Pupil (Carcanet, 1994), Out of the Air (Carcanet, 1999) and Clarity or Death! (Carcanet, 2008).