Background
John Thompson was born in Timperley in 1938. Following the death of his father and abandonment by his mother, he was educated at various boarding schools and the Manchester Grammar School.
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John Thompson was born in Timperley in 1938. Following the death of his father and abandonment by his mother, he was educated at various boarding schools and the Manchester Grammar School.
Following two years service in the British Army intelligence corps, he studied comparative literature at Michigan State University and received his Doctor of Philosophy He studied under A. J. M. Smith and his thesis entailed the translation of poems by the French poet René Char.
He received his Bachelor of Arts in honours psychology from the University of Sheffield in 1958. His first collection of poetry, At the Edge of the Chopping there are no Secrets (1973), received mixed reviews. This was followed by a divorce and a fire that consumed his home and most of his manuscripts.
He wrote the 38 poems in his second - and last - collection, Stilt Jack, while in Toronto on a sabbatical.
The cause of his death at the age of 38, immediately after Stilt Jack was completed, remains the subject of debate. In the fall of 1975, Thompson wrote his will.
At Christmas, he broke down and was hospitalized. On his release three months later, instead of abiding by the doctor"s orders not to mix drugs and alcohol, he continued to drink steadily.
He finished Stilt Jack in April.
After returning home, the tenants in the apartment below heard muffled choking and cries. He was discovered comatose-and pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital. James Polk describes the cause of death as "a brutal mix of barbiturates and liquor." The autopsy did not provide conclusive evidence that Thompson killed himself.
Thompson"s poems, published and unpublished, including his translations of French and Québécois poets, John Thompson: Collected Poems and Translations, and a biographical essay by the editor, Peter Sanger, were published by Goose Lane Editions (Fredericton) in 1995.
In 1998 in The Danforth Review, Dan Reve wrote, " is a rarefied, peculiar and therefore powerful form. John Thompson is to be credited with the introduction and dissemination of the ghazal in Canada.
His Stilt Jack is one of literature"s odd, incommensurable works of genius.".
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Tarrant County (Director, 1982-1984) and American Bar Associations. State Bar of Texas (Member, District 7 Committee on Admissions, 1982-1985). Fellow, Texas Bar Foundation.
(Board Certified, Commercial Real Estate Law and Farm and Ranch Real Estate Law, Texas Board of Legal Specialization).
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