Kirkup, James (Falconer)
Nationality: British. Born: South Shields, County Durham, 23 April Education: South Shields High School; Durham University, B.A. Career: Gregory Fellow in Poetry, Leeds University, –52; visiting poet and head of the Department of English, Bath Academy of Art, Corsham, Wiltshire, –56; traveling lecturer, Swedish Ministry of Education, Stockholm, –57; professor of English, University of Salamanca, Spain, –58, and Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, –61; lecturer in English literature, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, –62; professor of English literature, Nagoya University, Japan, – Since professor of English literature, Japan Women's University, Tokyo; professor of English literature and poet-in-residence, Amherst College, Massachusetts, ; Arts Council creative writer, University of Sheffield, –75; Morton Visiting Professor, Ohio University, Athens, –76; dramatist-in-residence, Sherman Theatre, Cardiff, – Since professor of English literature, Kyoto University of Foreign Studies. Literary editor, Orient/West Magazine, Tokyo, –64; founder, Poetry Nippon, Nagoya, Since president, Poets' Society of Japan, and since president and cofounder, The
James Kirkup (23 April – 10 May )
"A haiku a day / keeps the doctor away"
James Kirkup was a prolific English poet, novelist, playwright, translator and travel writer, having become a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in After first visiting Japan in , he was to be largely based there for the next 30 years of his life, holding various positions at Japanese Universities and producing many publications of both his own poetry as well as translations of Japanese works. His achievements in writing haiku, tanka and senryu were acknowledged by an invitation to the Imperial New Year Poetry Reading in
James Falconer Kirkup was born in South Shields, County Durham on 23 April He studied Modern Languages at Armstrong College (later part of the University of Durham), where he was involved in the production of the poetry magazines Dint and Fulcrum. Some of Kirkup's early surrealist poems appeared in these publications, and in Platitude, a literary magazine based at Oriel College, Oxford. During the s, Kirkup became involved in the poetry readings organised by the Progressive League in London.
After writing simple verses and rhymes from the age of six a
James Kirkup
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James Kirkup, FRSL (23 April – 10 May ) was a prolific British poet, translator and travel writer, best-known for his controversial poem The Love that Dares to Speak its Name, which describes a sexual fantasy of a homosexual soldier for the dead Christ. The poem was banned in under the UK's blasphemy laws after it was published by Gay News on June 3,
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Early life
During the Second World War he was a conscientious objector, and worked on the land in the Yorkshire Dales. From to he was the first Gregory Poetry Fellow at Leeds University, making him the first resident university poet in the United Kingdom. In he moved south to Gloucestershire and became visiting poet at Bath Academy of Art for the next three years. From Bath he taught in a London Grammar School before leaving England in to live and work in Europe, the Americas and the Far East. He found the Japanese accepted him and appreciated his work, and so he settled there, lecturing in English Literature at several universities.
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Kirkup, James (Poet)
James Kirkup was born in Shields in and was one of the leading poets of the mid to late twentieth century.
Dorothy Fleet recorded James in about talking fondly about his childhood years spent in the town.
He went to Baring Street School, Westoe Boys School then Kings College at Durham University. After the war he worked as a school teacher.
His first book of poems was called the Drowned Sailor and was published in , he published 33 books of poetry, 7 plays and 5 travel books.
Many of his poems recall his childhood days in South Shields. Places include: Ferry, Groyne, King Street, Lifeboat, Market, Marine Park, Ocean Road, Old Town Hall, Pier, Town Hall, Trow Rocks and Westoe Village.
After he mainly worked abroad lecturing in English in Sweden, Malaya and Japan.
He spent 30 years in Japan lecturing in English at several universities where he is very highly regarded.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in
In he was celebrated with an exhibition of his works at the Central Library in South Shields.
The Guardian called him &#;One of the genuine masters of verse in the middle to late twenti
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