Cliff Ashby

November 10, 1919 (age 92)

Norfolk, United States

In so doing he met several artists and poets, and began the path to his own literary career. As a poet he came to light through X magazine. His poetry collections include In the Vulgar Tongue (1968), The Dogs of Dewsbury (1976), Lies and Dreams (1980), Plain Song: Collected Poems (1985) and A Few Late Flowers (2007). His novels are The Old Old Story and How and Why (both 1969). He died at home on 30 April 2012. On Ashby"s Few Late Flowers (2008) Robert Nye says: "He has just published what must be the most remarkable swansong offered by a writer in their 89th year..A sequence of quietly original poems, it is the bittersweet distillation of a lifetime"s experience".

Cliff Ashby

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He was born in Norfolk.

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In so doing he met several artists and poets, and began the path to his own literary career. As a poet he came to light through X magazine. His poetry collections include In the Vulgar Tongue (1968), The Dogs of Dewsbury (1976), Lies and Dreams (1980), Plain Song: Collected Poems (1985) and A Few Late Flowers (2007).

His novels are The Old Old Story and How and Why (both 1969).

He died at home on 30 April 2012. On Ashby"s Few Late Flowers (2008) Robert Nye says: "He has just published what must be the most remarkable swansong offered by a writer in their 89th year..A sequence of quietly original poems, it is the bittersweet distillation of a lifetime"s experience".

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He was a conscientious objector in World World War II, undertaking agricultural work in lieu of military service.

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