Whitworth, John
WHITWORTH, John
WHITWORTH, John. Also writes as Phoebe Flood. British (born India), b. 1945. Genres: Poetry. Career: Teacher of English as a foreign language in the south of England, 1969-84; Teacher of Creative Writing, and literary journalist/reviewer, 1984-. Publications: POETRY: Unhistorical Fragments, 1980; Poor Butterflies, 1982; Lovely Day for a Wedding, 1985; Tennis and Sex and Death, 1989; (ed.) The Faber Book of Blue Verse, 1990; Landscape with Small Humans, 1993; The Complete Poetical Works of Phoebe Flood (for children), 1996; (with G. Mangan) From the Sonnet History of Modern Poetry, 1999; The Whitworth Gun, 2001. OTHER: Writing Poetry, 2001. Address: 20 Lovell Rd, Rough Common, Canterbury, Kent CT2 9D9, England.
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