John Ash Author & Editor

Born in Manchester in 1948, John Ash read English at the University of Birmingham. He taught for a year in Cyprus. His Carcanet books include The Goodbyes (Poetry Book Society Choice, 1982), The Branching Stairs (1984), Disbelief (PBS Choice 1987) and The Burnt Pages (1991). His latest collection Anatolikon and To the City was published by Carcanet in 2002.