biography
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| (1952– )
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| biography:
| Poet, biographer, and novelist, born in London, UK. He studied at Oxford, and became an English lecturer at Hull University (1976–80), and later professor of creative writing at the University of East Anglia (1995– ). His works include The Lamberts (1986, Somerset Maugham Award), a biography of Philip Larkin A Writer's Life (1993, Whitbread), a biography of Keats (1997), and Wainewright the Poisoner (2000). His collections of poetry include Love in a Life (1991), Salt Water, and Selected Poems 1976-1997 (1998). He has also published novels including The Invention of Dr Cake (2003). He succeeded Ted Hughes as poet laureate in 1999. |
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