This transcription of an interview John Wain gave to the Journal of the Short Story in English first appeared in that publication in 1984. It has since appeared online in English on this French-language website . The short story is, of…
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John Wain’s lecture on the story of Edward Thomas and Helen Thomas Given in 1976 during his tenure of the Professorship of Poetry at Oxford and collected in Professing Poetry (1978) Read the lecture in full here as a pdf
John Wain was Professor of Poetry at Oxford University from 1973 to 1975. The post was and is a part time, nominal one; a small salary and no formal duties beyond giving a certain number of lectures a year. The tradition is that…
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New editions with new cover artwork of The Contenders, Strike The Father Dead (UK Edition) and the Whitbread Fiction Prize-winning Young Shoulders, all from the Foruli Press. The covers have been commissioned by Foruli and are the work of Andy Vella, who designed many of…
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In 1943 John Wain went up to St John’s College, Oxford, where he spent three years reading English with C.S. Lewis as his tutor. Among his fellow students were John Heath-Stubbs, Kingsley Amis, Philip Larkin and Kenneth Tynan. With the energy of…
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Extract from John Wain’s poem A Song About Major Eatherly Hear the poet reading the poem in full here Major Claude W. Eatherly was a pilot of a Reconnaissance plane for the flight of US aircraft that dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima…
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Since there is no biography, official or unofficial, authorised or not, of my father, I’ll just mention the main pieces of writing he produced about his own life. (There are plenty of places on the internet where you can go…
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