Kit Wright

Kit Wright

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Kit Wright (born Crockham Hill, 17th June 1944) is an English poet and children's author.

Early life

Educated at Oxford University, Wright moved to Canada to work as a lecturer. In 1970 he returned to London to work as an Education Officer for the Poetry Society until 1975. From 1977 to 1979 he was Fellow Commoner in Creative Art at Cambridge University. He subsequently returned to London and works full-time as a writer.

Awards

*1977: Alice Hunt Bartlett Award (Awarded for "The Bear Looked Over the Mountain")
*1978: Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize (Awarded for "The Bear Looked Over the Mountain")
*1985: Arts Council Writers' Award
*1990 Heinemann Award (Awarded for "Short Afternoons")
*1991 Hawthornden Prize (Awarded for "Short Afternoons")

Bibliography

*"Soundings: A Selection of Poems for Reading Aloud" (editor) Heinemann Education, 1975
*"The Bear Looked Over the Mountain" Salamander, 1977
*"Arthur's Father" (illustrated by Eileen Brown) Methuen, 1978
*"Arthur's Granny" (illustrated by Eileen Brown) Methuen, 1978
*"Arthur's Sister" (illustrated by Eileen Brown) Methuen, 1978
*"Arthur's Uncle" (illustrated by Eileen Brown) Methuen, 1978
*"Rabbiting On and Other Poems" (illustrated by Posy Simmonds) Fontana Lions, 1978
*"Hot Dog and Other Poems" (illustrated by Posy Simmonds) Kestrel, 1981
*"Professor Potts Meets the Animals in Africa" Watts, 1981
*"Hot Dog and Other Poems" Puffin, 1982
*"Bump-Starting the Hearse" Hutchinson, 1983
*"From the Day Room" Windows Project, 1983
*"Poems for Ten Year Olds and Over" Viking Kestrel, 1984
*"Poems for Nine Year Olds and Under" Puffin, 1985
*"Cat Among the Pigeons" Viking Kestrel, 1987
*"One of Your Legs is Both the Same: A Poem" Turret, 1987
*"Poems 1974-1983" Hutchinson, 1988
*"Short Afternoons" Hutchinson, 1989
*"Puffin Portable Poets" (contributor) Puffin, 1990
*"Funnybunch: New Puffin Book of Funny Verse" Viking, 1993
*"Tigerella (illustrated by Peter Bailey)" André Deutsch, 1993
*"Great Snakes" (illustrated by Posy Simmonds) Viking, 1994
*"Dolphinella" (illustrated by Peter Bailey) André Deutsch, 1995
*"Rumpelstiltskin" Scholastic, 1998
*"Hoping It Might Be So: Poems 1974-2000" Leviathan, 2000
*"Write Away" Times Supplements, 2000

External links

* [http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth226 British Arts Council article on Kit Wright]
* [http://www.poetryarchive.org/childrensarchive/singlePoet.do?poetId=1723 Children's Poetry Archive article on Kit Wright]


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