Anthony Simon Thwaite, OBE, (born 23 June 1930, in Chester), is an English poet and writer. He is married to the writer Ann Thwaite. He was awarded the OBE in 1992, for services to poetry. He was mainly brought up in Yorkshire and currently lives in Norfolk.
During World War II he stayed with relations in the United States. He was educated at Kingswood School, Bath (1944–49) and subsequently read English at Christ Church, Oxford.
He taught at Tokyo University from 1955 and 1957, and for a year in 1985. He has worked for BBC Radio, the New Statesman as literary editor, and from 1973 to 1985 as editor of Encounter with Melvin J. Lasky. Thwaite is one of the literary executors of Philip Larkin, and the major editor of Larkin's work.
Anthony Thwaite (Fantasy Press 1953). Fantasy Poets 17
Oxford Poetry 1954 (1954), editor with Jonathan Price
Poems (1957). Privately printed in Tokyo
Essays on Contemporary English Poetry (1957)
Home Truths (1957), poems
Contemporary English Poetry - An Introduction (1961)
New Poems 1961: A P.E.N Anthology of Contemporary Poetry (1961), editor with Hilary Corke and William Plomer
The Owl in the Tree (1963), poems
Japan in Color (1967)
The Stones of Emptiness: Poems 1963-66 (1967)
Deserts of Hesperides: an Experience in Libya (1969)
At Dunkeswell Abbey (1970), broadside poem
Penguin Modern Poets 18 (1970), with A. Alvarez and Roy Fuller
Points (1972)
Inscriptions, Poems 1967–72 (1973)
Jack (1973) poem
Poetry Today 1960-1973 (1973)
Roloff Beny In Italy (1974), with Peter Porter, Gore Vidal
New Confessions (1974), poems
The English Poets - From Chaucer to Edward Thomas (1974), with Peter Porter
Beyond the Inhabited World: Roman Britain (1977)
A Portion for Foxes (1977), poems
Twelve Poems (1978)
Twentieth Century English Poetry : An Introduction (1978)
New Poetry 4 (1978), Arts Council anthology, editor with Fleur Adcock
Victorian Voices (1980), poems
Odyssey : Mirror of the Mediterranean (1981)
Larkin at Sixty (1982) editor
The Penguin Book of Japanese Verse (1983), editor with Geoffrey Bownas
Telling Tales (1983)
Poems 1953–1983 (1984)
Six Centuries of Verse (1984), editor
Poetry Today : A Critical Guide to British Poetry 1960-1984 (1985)
Letter from Tokyo (1987)
Philip Larkin: Collected Poems (The Marvell Press, Faber & Faber, 1988), editor
Fourteen Poems Collected Poems of Philip Larkin (1989), editor
Selected Letters of Philip Larkin (1992), editor
Poetry Today: A critical guide to British poetry 1960-1995 (1996)
R. S. Thomas - Everyman's Poetry (1996), editor
Selected Poems 1956-1996 (1997)
Longfellow (1997) editor
Anthony Thwaite in Conversation (1999), with Peter Dale and Ian Hamilton
Paeans for Peter Porter (1999), editor
High Windows by Philip Larkin (2000), editor
A Different Country (Enitharmon Press 2000), poems
George MacBeth – Selected Poems (2002), editor
Further Requirements: Interviews, Broadcasts, Statements and Book Reviews, 1952-85, by Philip Larkin (2002), editor
A Move in the Weather: Poems 1994-2002 (Enitharmon Press, 2003)
Philip Larkin – Collected Poems (2004), editor
Collected Poems (Enitharmon Press, 2007)
Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica (Faber & Faber, Bodleian Library, 2010), editor
