Career
He left school aged 14 and said that anything he learned afterwards was self-taught. He started publishing poems from the age of about 21 and he became co-editor of the now-defunct literary magazine Chanticleer with the Irish poet, Patrick Galvin, at around the same time. Shortly afterwards he started reviewing regularly for the Times Literary Supplement, mainly dealing with modern and 17th-century poetry.
He listed among the prime influences on his work Dylan Thomas, Andrew Marvell and ("inevitably") West.H. Auden.
More recently, as may be evident from some of his later poems, the more economical style of Ian Hamilton has been an influence. He published two small collections of verse in the mid to late 1950s: This and That (Fantasy Press 1955) and Errors of Observation (The School of Art, University of Reading 1957).
He started submitting poetry for publication after a break of some 30 years. He has been published more recently in literary magazines such as Ambit (), London Magazine and The Rialto.
His third volume, "Towards Oblivion", was published shortly beforee his death.
