Background
Whigham was born in Oxford, where he was largely self-educated.
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Career
He worked as a gardener, a school teacher, an actor, a newspaper reporter, and a script writer In the 1950s, he contributed to The European, a magazine edited by Diana Mosley. In the early 1960s he moved to Italy to devote himself entirely to writing.
In 1968-1969 he was a guest lecturer in poetry at the University of California, Santa Barbara, as was Basil Bunting, Fred Turner, and Kenneth Rexroth.
His seminar classes were popular among undergraduates new to the experience of living, modern poetry. In the mid-1970s he taught a graduate poetry seminar in the Comparative Literature Department at the University of California, Berkeley.
