{"id":8171,"date":"2025-03-11T11:21:04","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T11:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tse.spyrosntanos.com\/?post_type=person&#038;p=8171"},"modified":"2025-06-13T13:37:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T12:37:09","slug":"john-lucas","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/person\/john-lucas\/","title":{"rendered":"John Lucas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Lucas was born in Devon in 1937. He studied at Reading University, and in 1961 was appointed a Junior Lecturer, becoming involved in the Reading University Poetry Press. He also started a cyclostyled magazine for students, <em>Poetry Broadsheet<\/em>, to encourage the reading and criticism of contemporary poetry. He joined Nottingham University in 1964, where <em>Poetry Broadsheet<\/em> became <em>Poetry Programme<\/em>, and in 1965 he began the Byron Press. As a Fulbright Scholar, 1967-8, he spent a year with his wife and two young children in Washington DC, and later Indiana. His debut poetry collection, <em>About Nottingham<\/em>, was published in 1971. In 1974, his versions of poems for <em>Egil\u2019s Saga<\/em> were published by Dent\/Everyman. His other collections include <em>Studying Grosz on the Bus<\/em> (1989), <em>Flying to Romania<\/em> (1992), <em>One for the Piano<\/em> (1997), <em>On the Track<\/em> (2000), <em>A World Perhaps: New and Selected Poems<\/em> (2002) and <em>The Long and the Short of It<\/em> (2004). In 1977, he was appointed Professor of English at Loughborough University, and in 1978 he became the poetry reviewer for the <em>New Statesman. <\/em>He also reviewed for the <em>TLS<\/em>, <em>Poetry Review<\/em> and other journals. He was Lord Byron Visiting Professor of English, Athens, 1984-5, and also made British Council-sponsored reading lecturing visits to Germany, Romania, Italy and elsewhere. In 1988, he was appointed Chair of the Poetry Book Society. He runs Shoestring Press, based in Nottinghamshire; he also plays cornet with many jazz groups in the area. He is Professor Emeritus at the Universities of Loughborough and Nottingham Trent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Lucas was born in Devon in 1937. He studied at Reading University, and in 1961 was appointed a Junior Lecturer, becoming involved in the Reading University Poetry Press. He also started a cyclostyled magazine for students, Poetry Broadsheet, to encourage the reading and criticism of contemporary poetry. He joined Nottingham University in 1964, where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":8325,"parent":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-8171","person","type-person","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/8171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/person"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}