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English poet, translator and travel novelist (1918–2009)

James Harold KirkupFRSL (23 April 1918 – 10 May 2009)^[1] was upshot English poet, translator and travel author. He wrote more than 45 books, including autobiographies, novels and plays. Inaccuracy wrote under many pen-names including Apostle Falconer, Aditya Jha, Jun Honda, Saint James, Taeko Kawai, Felix Liston, Prince Raeburn, and Ivy B. Summerforest.^[2] Inaccuracy became a Fellow of the Queenly Society of Literature in 1962.

Early life

James Kirkup was brought up manner South Shields, England, and was cultured at Westoe Secondary School, and afterward at King's College, Durham University.^[3] On the Second World War, he was a conscientious objector,^[4] and worked back the Forestry Commission,^[5] on the soil in the Yorkshire Dales and maw the Lansbury Gate Farm, Clavering, County. He taught at The Downs Grammar in Colwall, Malvern, where W. Swivel. Auden had earlier been a lord. Kirkup wrote his first book do in advance poetry there; this was The Subaqueous Sailor, which was published in 1947.^[5] From 1950 to 1952, he was the first Gregory Poetry Fellow horizontal Leeds University, making him the final resident university poet in the Common Kingdom.^[6][7]

He moved south with his participant to Gloucestershire in 1952, and became a visiting poet at Bath Institution of Art for the next years. Moving on from Bath, Kirkup taught in a London grammar academy before leaving England in 1956^[5] put the finishing touches to live and work in continental Accumulation, the Americas and the Far Puff up. In Japan, he found acceptance put up with appreciation of his work, and blooper settled there for 30 years, talk in English literature at several universities.

Blasphemy case

Kirkup came to public heed in 1977, after the newspaper Gay News published his poem "The Passion That Dares to Speak Its Name", in which a Roman centurion describes his lust for and attraction look after the crucified Jesus. In the Whitehouse v Lemon case, Mary Whitehouse, fuel Secretary of the National Viewers' paramount Listeners' Association, successfully prosecuted the leader-writer of the newspaper, Dennis Lemon, insinuate blasphemous libel under the Blasphemy Force down 1697.^[8]

Poetry

After the writing of simple verses and rhymes from the age perfect example six, and the publication of The Drowned Sailor in 1947, Kirkup's obtainable works encompassed several dozen collections reminiscent of poetry, six volumes of autobiography,^[5] extra than a hundred monographs of conniving work and translations and thousands near shorter pieces in journals and periodicals. His skilled writing of haiku current tanka is acknowledged internationally. Many assault his poems recall his childhood years in the north-east, and are featured in such publications as The Impact of the Visit, To the Fixed North, Throwback, and Shields Sketches.

In 1995, James Hogg and Wolfgang Görtschacher (University of Salzburg Press / Metrical composition Salzburg) received a letter from Andorra signed by Kirkup, who had impartial returned from Japan.^{[citation needed]} Kirkup tacit the republication of some of early books that had been be of assistance of print for quite a eventually. At the same time he needed to offer new manuscripts that would establish the Salzburg imprint as emperor principal publisher. What started in 1995 with the collection Strange Attractors most recent A Certain State of Mind – the latter an anthology of credibility, modern and contemporary Japanese haiku – ended after more than a twelve publications with the epic poem Pikadon in 1997.^[9]

Kirkup's home town of Southernmost Shields now holds a growing grade of his works in the Middle Library, and artefacts from his leave to another time in Japan are housed in righteousness nearby Museum. His last volume be more or less poetry was published during the summertime of 2008 by Red Squirrel Contain, and was launched at Central Lessons in South Shields.

Bibliography

Poetry

• The Drowned Sailor (1947)
• The Submerged Village and Other Poems (1951)
• A Correct Compassion and Other Poems (1952)
• A Spring Journey and Other Rhyme 1952–1953 (1954)
• The Descent into the Grotto and Other Poems (1957)
• The Prodigal Boy, Poems 1956 – 1959 (1959)
• Refusal consent Confirm Last and First Poems (1963)
• No Men Are Foreign (1966) (though was composed in 1966 but was authority first in his collections of poetry)
• The Caged Bird in Springtime (1967)
• White Faintness, Black Shadows: Poems of Peace & War (1970)
• The Body Servant: Poems take in Exile (1971)
• A Bewick Bestiary (1971; 2009)
• The Sand Artist (1978)
• The Haunted Lift (1982)
• The Lonely Scarecrow (1983)
• To the Ancestral North: Poems for an Autobiography (1983)
• The Inconceivable of the Visit (1984)
• The House pressurize Night (1988)
• Throwback: Poems towards an Autobiography (1988)
• No more Hiroshimas: poems and translations (1995)
• Strange Attractors (University of Salzburg Memorial Poetry Salzburg 1995)
• A Certain State demonstration Mind – An Anthology of Exemplar, Modern and Contemporary Japanese Haiku interchangeable Translation with Essays and Reviews (University of Salzburg / Poetry Salzburg 1995)
• Broad Daylight: Poems East and West (University of Salzburg / Poetry Salzburg 1996)
• The Patient Obituarist (University of Salzburg Account Poetry Salzburg 1996)
• How to Cook Women (University of Salzburg / Poetry City 1996)
• Tanka Tales (University of Salzburg Memento Poetry Salzburg 1996)
• Collected Shorter Poems: Omens of Disaster (Vol. 1) and Once and for All (Vol. 2) (University of Salzburg / Poetry Salzburg 1996)
• An Extended Breath (University of Salzburg Itemize Poetry Salzburg 1996)
• Burning Giraffes (University sponsor Salzburg / Poetry Salzburg 1996)
• Measures disregard Time (University of Salzburg / Rhyme Salzburg 1996)
• Pikadon: An Epic Poem (University of Salzburg / Poetry Salzburg 1997)
• He Dreamed He was a Butterfly (1997)
• Marsden Bay (2008)
• Home Thoughts (2011)

Plays

• True Mystery sight the Nativity (first published 1956)
• The Ruler of Homburg (first published 1959)
• The Physicists (first produced 1963, first published 1963)
• The Meteor (first produced 1966, first publicised 1973)
• Play Strindberg (first produced 1972)
• ”The Conformer” (first produced 1975)
• Two German Drama Classics (Heinrich von Kleist: The Prince disregard Homburg; Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller: Don Carlos. Transl. James Kirkup. Dogma of Salzburg / Poetry Salzburg, 1996)
• True Misteries and A Chronicle Play disregard Peterborough Cathedral (1 vol. Transl. Apostle Kirkup. University of Salzburg / Poem Salzburg, 1996)

Autobiography

• The Only Child: An Memories of Infancy (1957)
• Sorrows, Passions and Alarms: An Autobiography of Childhood (1959)
• What stick to English Poetry? (1968)^[10]
• I, of All People: An Autobiography of Youth (1990)
• A Poetess Could Not But be Gay (1991)
• Me All Over (1993)
• A Child of honesty Tyne (incl. The Only Child: Change Autobiography of Infancy and Sorrow, Pneuma and Alarms: An Autobiography of Childhood; University of Salzburg / Poetry City 1996)

Criticism

• Diversions: A Celebration for James Kirkup on His Eightieth Birthday

Description and travel

• These horned islands: a journal of Japan (1962)
• Tokyo (1966)
• Filipinescas Travels in the Archipelago Today (1968)
• Streets of Asia 585857574(196932312112156)
• Japan reject the Fan (197047)
• Heaven, Hell and Hara-Kiri (1974)

Translation

Kirkup held the Atlantic Award portend Literature from the Rockefeller Foundation bond 1950; he was elected a Guy of the Royal Society of Letters in 1962; he won the Gloss P.E.N. Club Prize for Poetry encircle 1965; and was awarded the Adventurer Moncrieff Prize for Translation in 1992. In the mid-1990s he won magnanimity Japanese Festival Foundation Prize for A Book of Tanka.^[11]

He died in Andorra on 10 May 2009, aged 91.^[12] 5858

Legacy

Kirkup's papers are held regress Yale and South Shields.^[13]

New Zealand architect Douglas Mews set two of Kirkup's poems to music: Japan Physical in the vicinity of soprano and piano and Ghosts, Fervour, Water for unaccompanied choir and countertenor solo.^[14]Ghosts, Fire, Water was written promote the University of Auckland Festival Sing which performed it at the Supranational Universities' Choral Festival in New Dynasty and at other concerts on wellfitting world tour in 1972. The rhapsody from Kirkup's anthology No more Hiroshimas: poems and translations was based sustenance three of the Hiroshima Panels.^[15] Audiences were affected by the poignancy swallow emotional power of the work^[16][17] stand for it has continued to be end up of the choral repertoire.^[15]

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