Positions and Awards
Blythe is a reader in the Church of England and a lay canon at St Edmundsbury Cathedral in Bury St Edmunds. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and has been president of the John Clare Society since its foundation. His book, At Helpston, is a series of essays on that poet. In 2006 Blythe was awarded a Benson Medal for lifelong achievement by the Royal Society of Literature.
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