Alan Jenkins was born in Surrey in 1955 and has lived for most of his life in London. He studied at the University of Sussex and worked for the Times Literary Supplement from 1981 to 2020, first as poetry and fiction editor, then as deputy editor. He was also a poetry critic for The Observer and the Independent on Sunday...
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