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“Boy Thing is a thing of wonder. These are poems that negotiate anew the tender, hurt territory of a boy abruptly unfathered with every fresh reading; and that travel into the wonderment of becoming a father of boys."
John Wedgwood Clarke trained as an actor at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and holds a D.Phil. in Modernist poetics from the University of York. He is currently Leverhulme Artist in Residence at the Centre for Environmental and Marine Sciences at the University of Hull, Scarborough, and teaches poetry on the part-time creative writing degree at the University of Hull. His poems and critical writing have appeared in various publications including, most recently, Best British Poetry 2012. In 2010 he was also shortlisted for the Manchester Poetry Prize. "His work is amongst the best to have emerged from new poets in this country over the past two or three years." - Simon Armitage He is co-Artistic Director of Sea Swim.