THOMAS JOACHIM KINGSTON (UK)

Thomas Joachim Kingston grew up in Germany and England. He studied English language and literature at the University of London and worked throughout most of his life as a teacher sharing his love of literature, and in particular Shakespeare, with his students. Kingston has also written critically on Milton and Pinter and is at present occupied with research into aspects of language loss. He is married and has two daughters and lives in Hertfordshire, England.

He writes: “I am fascinated by Man, Woman, God and their language and know that poetry is the nature of their relationship with one another. Every point of contact imposes a distinctive voice, tone and quality of language. There is always contradiction, always complexity and always simplicity. Poetry is the challenge to transform the well known into a fresh illusion.”