Dennis Wilson (poet)

Dennis B. Wilson (25 June 1921 – 28 June 2022) was a British poet known mainly for his writings as a soldier in World War II.

Poems he wrote during the 1944 Normandy landings were published for the first time in 2012 by Kultura Press with the assistance of Tim Crook, a researcher at Goldsmiths College who was working on a biography of Wilson's father, the writer and spy Alexander Wilson.^[1] His mother was Alexander Wilson's first wife, Gladys.^[1]

He had two siblings, and had four half-siblings through his polygamous father's further three marriages.^[2]

In 2018, he was depicted by the actor Patrick Kennedy in the BBC drama about Alexander Wilson, Mrs Wilson. Also appearing in the series was his real-life niece, actress Ruth Wilson, portraying her grandmother.

Wilson turned 100 in June 2021,^[3] and died on 28 June 2022, at the age of 101.^[4]

• The Poetry of a Marriage. Kultura Press. 2008. ISBN 978-0954289973.
• Haughtyculture or the Gardening Muse. Kultura Press. 2011. ISBN 978-0954289997.
• Elegy of a Common Soldier and Other Poems. Kultura Press. 2012. ISBN 978-1908842008.
• A Celebration of Children. Kultura Press. 2012. ISBN 978-1908842015.
• From Bard To Verse and Poetic Epics. Kultura Press. 2012. ISBN 978-1908842022.

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