Jon Glover was born in Sheffield in 1943 and was educated at the University of Leeds, where he met Jon Silkin, Ken Smtih, Geoffrey Hill, Peter Redgrove, David Wright and Jeffrey Wainwright and started to help produce and edit Stand magazine. He spent the year 1966-7 in the United States with his wife, Elaine, who comes from near Niagra Falls. In 1968 he moved to what has since become the University of Bolton, where he is currently Research Professor. Two previous books of poetry have been published by Carcanet. He edited The Penguin Book of First World War Prose (1989) with Jon Silkin, and is currently researching the Stand and Silkin archives held at the University of Leeds and working on a biography of Jon Silkin. He is now the Managing Editor of Stand.
