English poet and critic Ben Wilkinson is a keen distance runner, lifelong Liverpool Football Club fan, and among other things he works as poetry critic for The Guardian and the Times Literary Supplement.His debut full collection of poems, Way More Than Luck, appeared from Seren Books in February 2018.
Wilkinson is co‑editor of The Result Is What You See Today: Poems about Running.
At the Guardian he tagged a few books books that explore our love of running, including:
Writers of all stripes have questioned why we run. In Born to Run, Christopher McDougall discovers a hidden tribe in Mexico’s Copper Canyon; the realisation dawns that “the world’s most enlightened people were also the world’s most amazing runners”. An author’s quest to run injury-free broadens into an anthropological study of our running lineage.Read about the other entries on the list.
--Marshal Zeringue
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