Ben Wilkinson was born in Stafford. He read English and Philosophy at the University of Sheffield and received AHRC funding to study on the MA Writing at Sheffield Hallam.

His poems and reviews have appeared in publications including Poetry Review, Poetry London, The Manhattan Review and the TLS.

publications:
the sparks

The Sparks is poetry responsive to the elemental layers that underscore

the material sheen of our early twenty-first century. It is the work of a poet steeped in the masters, but not cowed by them. Its lines are stylish, fluent, its images incandescent. There is both achievement and promise here: achievement borne of a craft thoroughly learned; the promise that what

Ben Wilkinson produces as he begins the difficult business of unlearning

is worth the wait.
                                                                                                       Conor O'Callaghan