United Kingdom
Lincoln, 1949
His poetry is collected in the volume Yellow Tulips. He is a recipient of the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry. He has also worked as a librettist and dramatist. His versions of Tirso de Molina’s Tamar’s Revenge, and of the Chinese classic The Orphan of Zhao have been performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company, for whom he is now writing a stage version of Don Quixote. He worked as a foreign correspondent in South East Asia, as a theater critic and as an art historian. He has been Oxford Professor of Poetry. He now lives in Harlem, New York, with his partner, the novelist and essayist, Darryl Pinckney.