John Muckle
John Muckle is a poet, critic and fiction writer. He is the author of five books of fiction, including the novels London Brakes (Shearsman, 2010), My Pale Tulip (Shearsman, 2012) and Falling Through (Shearsman, 2017). His critical work includes Little White Bull: British Fiction in the Fifties and Sixties (Shearsman, 2014). His first full-length poetry collection, Firewriting and Other Poems appeared from Shearsman in 2005, a late follow-up to It Is Now As It Was Then (with Ian Davidson, Mica...See more
John Muckle is a poet, critic and fiction writer. He is the author of five books of fiction, including the novels London Brakes (Shearsman, 2010), My Pale Tulip (Shearsman, 2012) and Falling Through (Shearsman, 2017). His critical work includes Little White Bull: British Fiction in the Fifties and Sixties (Shearsman, 2014). His first full-length poetry collection, Firewriting and Other Poems appeared from Shearsman in 2005, a late follow-up to It Is Now As It Was Then (with Ian Davidson, Mica Press/Actual Size, 1983). In the eighties he created the Paladin Poetry imprint and was general editor of its flagship anthology, The New British Poetry (eds. D'Aguiar, Allnutt, Edwards, Mottram, 1988). He has been for some fifteen years a regular contributor to PN Review as reviewer and essayist. He lives in London, and works as a teacher. See less