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Alan Jenkins was educated in London and the University of
Sussex, and has worked at the TLS since 1981, first as poetry and fiction
editor and, for the past twelve years, as Deputy Editor. He has been poetry
critic on the Observer and the Independent on Sunday, and has
taught creative writing in London, Paris and the USA (Bread Loaf and Princeton
and AUP). His books of poetry include In the Hot-House (1988),
Greenheart (1990), Harm (1994), which won the Forward Prize for Best
Collection that year, The Drift (2000), which was a Poetry Book Society
Choice and shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize, The Little Black Book
(2001). A Short History of Snakes, selected poems, was published in 2001
by Grove Press, New York. His latest collection, A Shorter Life, was
published in April 2005 and was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and
shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection. He has published
translations from the poems of Valery Larbaud and Bartolo Cataffi. In 2006 he
won the Cholmondeley Award, given in recognition of a poet’s body of writing.
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