Kit Wright
Kit Wright (born June 17, 1944 in Crockham Hill , Kent ) is a British poet and author of children's books who was awarded both the Hawthornden Prize and the Cholmondeley Award .
Life
After attending school, Wright studied at the University of Oxford and was a lecturer in Canada after completing his studies , before he was an educational assistant at the Poetry Society in London on his return from 1970 to 1975 . In 1975 he edited the volume of poetry Soundings: A Selection of Poems for Reading Aloud and published his first book, The Bear Looked Over the Mountain, in 1977, which received both the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and the Alice Hunt Bartlett Award . He then was a lecturer in creative writing at the University of Cambridge from 1977 to 1979 .
In 1985 he was also honored with the Arts Council Writers' Award and published his book Short Afternoons in 1989 , for which he was awarded both the Hawthornden Prize and the Heinemann Award. A collection of the lyric works of Wright, who also received the Cholmondeley Award in 1995, are included in the poetry collection Hoping It Might Be So: Poems 1974-2000 (2000). The Magic Box: Poems for Children (2009) was most recently published by the London- based author .
Wright's poems are sometimes reserved, but sometimes also full of emotion. His most famous poems include "Hoping It Might Be So", "Sonnet for Dick", "How the Wild South East Was Lost", "Ode to Didcot Power Station" and, for children, "Red Boots On" and "The Magic Box" .
more publishments
- Arthur's Father , Illustrated by Eileen Brown, 1978
- Arthur's Granny , Illustrated by Eileen Brown, 1978
- Arthur's Sister , Illustrated by Eileen Brown, 1978
- Arthur's Uncle , Illustrated by Eileen Brown, 1978
- Rabbiting On: and Other Poems , Illustrations Posy Simmonds, 1978
- Hot Dog and Other Poems , Illustrated by Posy Simmonds, 1981
- Professor Potts Meets the Animals in Africa , 1981
- Hot Dog and Other Poems , 1982
- Bump-Starting the Hearse , 1983
- From the Day Room , 1983
- Poems for Ten Year Olds and Over , 1984
- Poems for Nine Year Olds and Under , 1985
- Cat Among the Pigeons , 1987
- One of Your Legs is Both the Same: A Poem , 1987
- Poems 1974-1983 , 1988
- Puffin Portable Poets , 1990
- Funnybunch: New Puffin Book of Funny Verse , 1993
- Tigerella , illustrations by Peter Bailey, 1993
- Great Snakes , Illustrations Posy Simmonds, 1994
- Dolphinella , illustrations by Peter Bailey, 1995
- Rumpelstiltskin , 1998
- Write Away , 2000
- A Lisbon Sheaf , 2001
- Seaweed Their Pasture , Illustrated by Marie Kaufmann, 2007
Web links
- Biography and Bibliography (contemporarywriters.com)
- Biography (The Childrens Poetry Archive) ( Memento from June 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- Biography and Bibliography (poetryarchive.org)
- Author portrait (puffin.co.uk)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wright, Kit |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British poet and author of children's books |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 17, 1944 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Crockham Hill , Kent |