{"id":8548,"date":"2025-03-19T17:09:09","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T17:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tse.spyrosntanos.com\/?post_type=person&#038;p=8548"},"modified":"2025-07-02T13:40:24","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T12:40:24","slug":"alan-jenkins","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/person\/alan-jenkins\/","title":{"rendered":"Alan Jenkins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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 <em>Times Literary Supplement<\/em> from 1981 to 2020, first as poetry and fiction editor, then as deputy editor. He was also a poetry critic for <em>The Observer<\/em> and the <em>Independent on Sunday<\/em> from 1985-1990, and has taught creative writing in the USA, London and Paris. His collections of poetry are <em>In The Hot-House<\/em> (1988), <em>Greenheart<\/em> (1990), the Forward Prize-winning <em>Harm<\/em> (1994),<em> The Drift<\/em> (2000),<em> A Shorter Life<\/em> (2005)<em>, Revenants<\/em> (2013) and <i data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">The Ghost Net<\/i>\u00a0(2023); <em>Drunken Boats<\/em>, containing his acclaimed translation of Rimbaud\u2019s \u2018Le Bateau ivre\u2019, was published in 2007, and <em>Blue Days (The Sailor\u2019s Return)<\/em> in 2010.<em> A Short History of Snakes<\/em>, a selected poems, was published in 2001 by Grove Press, New York. He received an Eric Gregory Award in 1981, a Cholmondeley Award in 2006, and he is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. <em>Author photo \u00a9 Charles Hopkinson.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This biography of Alan Jenkins has been provided by <a href=\"https:\/\/poetryarchive.org\">Poetry Archive.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":10918,"parent":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-8548","person","type-person","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/8548","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\/10918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}