Harry Ricketts

Harry Ricketts
Born1950 (age 75–76)
London, United Kingdom
Occupations
  • Poet
  • biographer
  • editor
  • anthologist
  • critic
  • academic
Academic background
Alma materOxford University
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of Hong Kong
University of Leicester
Victoria University of Wellington (International Institute of Modern Letters)

Harry Ricketts (born 1950) is a New Zealand poet, biographer, editor, anthologist, critic, academic, literary scholar and cricket writer. Born and educated in England, Ricketts began teaching poetry at Victoria University of Wellington in 1981. He has published a number of poetry collections, and written biographies of Rudyard Kipling and of a dozen British First World War poets.