John Wain’s open letter to Alexander Solzhenitsyn, October 1973, BBC Radio 3
…we are with you as you speak your bold heroic simplicities. … Where you resist a tyranny, we wallow in a confusion.
Blog Postings
The Incidental Thoughts of Marshall McLuhan by John Wain (1986)
From the McLuhan Galaxy blog, an excerpt from John Wain’s (1986) memoir, Dear Shadows: Portraits from Memory. London: John Murray, pp. 77 – 110. Since this […]
Remarks on the short story
This transcription of an interview John Wain gave to the Journal of the Short Story in English first appeared in that publication in 1984. It […]
Edward and Helen Thomas: from Professing Poetry
John Wain’s lecture on the story of Edward Thomas and Helen Thomas Given in 1976 during his tenure of the Professorship of Poetry at Oxford and […]
“The best lecture…. I have ever heard”: John Wain on Milton’s ‘Masque of Comus’
John Wain was Professor of Poetry at Oxford University from 1973 to 1975. The post was and is a part time, nominal one; a small […]
Three new editions of John Wain novels
New editions with new cover artwork of The Contenders, Strike The Father Dead (UK Edition) and the Whitbread Fiction Prize-winning Young Shoulders, all from the Foruli Press. The covers have […]
One Winter’s Day: Will Wain meets Arthur Boyars, poet, publisher and musicologist
Note: Arthur passed away in August 2017, two years after I had the pleasure of interviewing him. In 1943 John Wain went up to St […]
A Song About Major Eatherly
Extract from John Wain’s poem A Song About Major Eatherly Hear the poet reading the poem in full here Major Claude W. Eatherly was a pilot of a […]
John Wain : A Life
Since there is no biography, official or unofficial, authorised or not, of my father, I’ll just mention the main pieces of writing he produced about […]