Kit Wright

Kit Wright ( born June 17, 1944 in Crockham Hill, Kent) is a British poet and author of children's books who is also the Cholmondeley Award was awarded both the Hawthornden Prize for.

Life

After schooling Wright studied at the University of Oxford and was a lecturer after graduation in Canada before he was after his return from 1970 to 1975 Educational employees of Poetry Society in London. In 1975 he gave his collection of poems Soundings: A Selection of Poems out for Reading Aloud and The Bear Looked Over the Mountain 1977 published his first book, which was concerned with both the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and the Alice Hunt Bartlett Award. After that, he was from 1977 to 1979 Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Cambridge.

In 1985 he was also honored with the Arts Council Writers' Award and in 1989 published his book Short Afternoons, for which he was awarded both the Hawthornden Prize and the Heinemann Award. A collection of lyrical works of Wright, who also received the Cholmondeley Award in 1995, are in the collection of poems Hoping It Might Be So: Poems 1974-2000 (2000) included. Most recently published by London-based author, 2009 The Magic Box: Poems for Children ( 2009).

Wright's poems are partly restrained, but partly also full of emotions. Among 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 ", as well as for children "Red Boots On " and "The Magic Box ".

More Releases

  • Arthur 's Father, illustrations, Eileen Brown, 1978
  • Arthur's Granny, illustrations, Eileen Brown, 1978
  • Arthur 's Sister, illustrations, Eileen Brown, 1978
  • Arthur 's Uncle, illustrations, Eileen Brown, 1978
  • Rabbi Ting On: and Other Poems, illustrations, Posy Simmonds, 1978
  • Hot Dog and Other Poems, illustrations, 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
  • Funny Bunch: New Puffin Book of Funny Verse, 1993
  • Tigerella, illustrations, Peter Bailey, 1993
  • Great Snakes, illustrations, Posy Simmonds, 1994
  • Dolphinella, illustrations, Peter Bailey, 1995
  • Rumpelstiltskin, 1998
  • Write Away, 2000
  • A Lisbon Sheaf, 2001
  • Seaweed Their Pasture, illustrations, Marie Kaufmann, 2007
Children's literature Anthology Lyric poetry
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