Tony Connor. Courtesy Anvil Press Poetry.
John Anthony Connor (born 1930) is an English poet, playwright, and academic.
Life[]
Connor was born in Manchester, England.
After leaving school at 14, Connor served in the Royal Army as a tank gunner, and later worked as a textile designer and in radio and television in Manchester in the 1960s.
From 1971 until he retired in 1999, Connor was professor of English at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. He lives in Middletown and London.
He was a close friend of English writer J.G. Ballard and remains close friends with Michael de Larrabeiti. A section of Connor's 2006 anthology Things Unsaid: Selected poems, 1960-2005 is dedicated to de Larrabeiti; de Larrabeiti's 1992 book Journal of a Sad Hermaphrodite is dedicated to Connor, and includes one of his poems.
Connor has published 9 volumes of poetry.
Recognition[]
His work was anthologized in British Poetry since 1945, 1970.
Connor was named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1974.
Publications[]
- With Love Somehow: Poems. London & New York: Oxford University Press, 1962.
- Lodgers: Poems. London & New York: Oxford University Press, 1965.
- Kon in Springtime: Poems. London & New York: Oxford University Press, 1968.
- In the Happy Valley: Poems. London & New York: Oxford University Press, 1971.
- The Memoirs of Uncle Harry: Poems. London & New York: Oxford University Press, 1974.
- Seven Last Poems from the memoirs of Uncle Harry. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Northern House, 1974.
- New and Selected Poems. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1982.
- Spirits of the Place: New poems. London & Dover, NH: Anvil Press Poetry, 1986.
- Metamorphic Adventures. London: Anvil Press Poetry, 1996.
- Things Unsaid: Selected poems, 1960-2005. Anvil Press Poetry, 2006.
Tony Connor "A Child Half Asleep"
Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.[1]
See also[]
References[]
Fonds[]
- John Anthony (Tony) Connor fonds at University of Victoria, Special Collections
Notes[]
- ↑ Search results = au:Tony Connor, WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, June 13, 2014.
External links[]
- Poems
- "Elegy for Alfred Hubbard"
- Tony Connor profile & 3 poems at the Academy of American Poets
- Tony Connor b. 1930 at the Poetry Foundation
- Books
- Tony Connor at Amazon.com
- About
- Etc.
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