Geoffrey Wilkinson

Geoffrey Wilkinson is an independent essayist and sometime translator of poetry from classical Japanese. His two most recent books, both published in 2024, are 'Zen and the Art of Piracy' (ISBN 9781916062221) and 'Regaining to Know Aright: "Natural" Knowledge for a Secular World' (ISBN 9781916062214). His previous book, 'Going to the Pine: Four Essays on Bashō' (ISBN 9781916062207), was shortlisted for the 2019 Touchstone Distinguished Books Award administered by The Haiku Foundation, and took Honorable Mention place in the Prose category of the 2020 Haiku Society of America Merit Book Awards. He is the author of 'Certainty, that thing of indefinite approximation' (new ISBN 9781916062238: there is no truth in the rumour that this book was written from beyond the grave by the late Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson). His journal articles include 'The painter-poet's eye, and ear: nine haiku by Buson' (Presence 67, July 2020); 'The poet vanishes: haiku by Chiyo, Bashō, and Buson' (Presence 64, July 2019); and 'Dream-bridges: three tanka from classical Japanese' (Ribbons 14.2, Spring/Summer 2018).

Abstracts, reviews, excerpts, and full texts for some of the journal articles can be found on Geoffrey Wilkinson's ResearchGate pages and elsewhere.