John Wilkinson

English poet John Wilkinson teaches English and creative writing at the University of Chicago, where he also chairs the Committee on Creative Writing. He entered academic life in 2005 after a career on mental health services in the UK, latterly in the East End of London. Wilkinson's books of poetry include My Reef My Manifest Array (Carcanet, 2019), Ghost Nets (Omnidawn, 2016),  Schedule of Unrest: Selected Poems (Salt Publishing, 2014), and Reckitt's Blue (Seagull Books, 2013). He is also the author of the essay collection The Following (The Last Books, 2020) and and the critical book Lyric in Its Times (Bloomsbury, 2019).