Ronald Tamplin

Ronald Tamplin was born in London in 1935, educated at Sir George Monoux Grammar School, Walthamstow and at Merton College, Oxford. He taught English Literature at the universities of Auckland and Waikato in New Zealand from 1961-1967 before moving back to the UK to join the staff of the University of Exeter, where he taught until 1990. After retiring to devote more time to writing, he held visiting professorships at the universities of Rennes, France and Bilkent, Ankara, Turkey and was also Honorary University Fellow at the University of Exeter until 2006. He has published a number of books of literary criticism and his academic articles have appeared in conference
proceedings, as contributions to books, and in many journals. His poetry has appeared in many magazines – mainly in the United Kingdom but also in Australia, Canada, France, Ireland, Italy, New Zealand, Turkey, and the USA – in anthologies, and in three collections, the most recent, Checkpoint (2010).

Among his published translations of poetry are sections of an ongoing modern verse version of the fourteenth-century Middle English poem Piers Plowman which have appeared in several anthologies, and, in collaboration, poems from a number of Turkish poets including Enis Batur, Ilhan Berk, and Edip Cansever.

(2017)