Kit Wright was born in 1944. He obtained a scholarship to Oxford and then worked as a lecturer in Canada. On his return to England he worked for the Poetry Society. Now a full-time writer he is the author of over twenty-five books, for both adults and children, and has won many awards, including the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, an Arts Council Writers' Award, the Hawthornden Prize, the Alice Hunt Bartlett Award and (jointly) the Heinemann Award.
Hoping It Might Be So brings together all of Kit Wright's previous collections for adults as well as three dozen new poems. The collection, first published in 2000, was described by Christina Patterson in the Sunday Times as 'funny and profoundly humane' and by Sophie Hannah in the...
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