Jon Silkin [SEP] educated at
Jon Silkin
Jon Silkin (2 December 1930 – 25 November 1997) was a British poet.
Early life.
Jon Silkin was born in London, in a Jewish immigrant family and named after Jon Forsyte in "The Forsyte Saga", and attended Wycliffe College and Dulwich College During the Second World War he was one of the children evacuated from London (in his case, to Wales); he remembered that he "roamed the countryside incessantly" while in Wales, collecting "fool's gold" and exploring
Ken Smith (poet)
Ken Smith (4 December 1938 Rudston, Yorkshire – 27 June 2003) was a British poet.
Life.
He was son of a farm labourer, and he had an itinerant childhood. He attended Leeds University and studied with Geoffrey Hill, with fellow students Tony Harrison and Jon Silkin.
With Jon Silkin, he later co-edited "Stand" magazine, from 1963 to 1972.
He left for America, teaching at Slippery Rock State College, College of the Holy