Eddie Wainwright

I am very sad to report that Eddie Wainwright died on Monday 21st February 2011.

Tell you what: meet me

when the stars brim and the moon’s

a golden crescent on the hill’s

dusky shoulder. Tell you what: I’ll lie

in wait for you, dear distant dreamer;

and I’ll wait for you.

(From the poem Lying in Wait by Eddie Wainright, Love and Death)

Eddie Wainwright spent his first 18 years in a mining village in the West

Riding of Yorkshire, and after army service with the Intelligence Corps in

England and Austria and five years at Manchester University (B.A. First

Class Hons. English, M.A., Teachers Diploma; awarded the George

Gissing Memorial Prize after Part I of the B.A.), taught in two grammar

schools, two colleges of education, a polytechnic, and several universities,

latterly the University of the West of England (Bristol) and City

University, London. Over the years, he has been published widely in

magazines and anthologies, both as a poet and reviewer (he has been the

main reviewer of new poetry for Envoi since 1991 and has also reviewed

for Outposts and New Hope International), and articles and features by

him have been published in several periodicals notably in Envoi but also

in Other Poetry, Acumen, Poetry Wales and the City University Journal of

Arts Policy and Management.

He had published the following:

Double Take (with David Herbert, Outposts)

Lying in Wait (Phoenix Pamphlet Poets, ed. Harry Chambers)

Growing Pains (Peterloo)

Gateways (Pikestaff Press)

Things Being Various (Lapwing Publications)

Love and Death (Lapwing Publications)

Tying Loose Ends (Lapwing Publications)

Taking Stock: A First Study of the Poetry of U.A. Fanthorpe (Peterloo)

Poetry in Our Time (Lapwing Publications)

Diary of a Leaving (Lapwing Publications)

Bitter Endings (Lapwing Publications)