John Fuller (poet)

John Fuller (poet)

John Fuller (born 1 January 1937) is an English poet and author, and Fellow Emeritus at Magdalen College, Oxford.

Fuller was born in Ashford, Kent, England, the son of poet and Oxford Professor Roy Fuller, and educated at St Paul's School and New College, Oxford. He began teaching in 1962 at the State University of New York, then continued at the University of Manchester. From (1966-2002) he was a Fellow and tutor of Magdalen College, Oxford; he is now Fellow Emeritus.

He has published 15 collections of poetry, including "Stones and Fires" (1996) and the recent "Now and for a Time" (2002). Chatto and Windus published a Collected Poems in 1996(1).His novel "Flying to Nowhere" (1983), a historical fantasy, won the Whitbread First Novel Award. In 2006 he won the Michael Braude Award for Light Verse. He has also written collections of short stories and several books for children. His poem "Ship of Sounds", illustrated with a wood engraving by the artist Garrick Palmer, was published in 1981 in an edition of 130 by Gruffyground Press.

He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

(1)Chatto Poetry: ISBN 0-701-16328-3. 480 pages.

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Books

Poetry

*Fairground Music (1961)
*The Tree that Walked (1967)
*Cannibals and Missionaries
*Epistles to Several Persons
*The Mountain and the Sea
*Lies and Secrets
*The Illusionists
*Waiting for the Music
*The Beautiful Inventions
*Selected Poems 1954 to 1982
*Partingtime Hall (with James Fenton)
*The Grey Among the Green
*The Mechanical Body
*Stones and Fires
*Now and for a Time
*Collected Poems

Fiction

*Flying to Nowhere
*The Adventures of Speedfall
*Tell It Me Again
*The Burning Boys
*Look Twice
*The Worm and the Star
*A Skin Diary
*The Memoirs of Laetitia Horsepole

Criticism

*A Reader's Guide to W.H. Auden (1970)
*The Sonnet

For Children

*Herod Do Your Worst (1968)
*Squeaking Crust (1970)
*The Spider Monkey Uncle King
*The Last Bid
*The Extraordinary Wool Mill and other stories
*Come Aboard and Sail Away

As Editor

*The Chatto Book of Love Poetry
*The Dramatic Works of John Gay
*The Oxford Book of Sonnets
*W.H. Auden


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