Background
Blake was born in Reydon, near Southwold in Suffolk in June 1946.
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Lewis Blake
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He was educated at City College Norwich before going to read Philosophy and English Literature at the University of Bristol.
Career
Foreign some time he worked as a newspaper journalist as a writer of obituaries and a reviewer of literary texts. As well as working as a mainstream journalist he has also written reviews for the academic journals ELH and PMLA.
Blake"s influences are wide ranging, and his poems contain eclectic references to different cultures.
Membership
He is a member of the Cambridge School of poetry, and, to a certain extent, the British Poetry Revival. In particular he draws on surrealism, dadaism, the contemporary avant-garde and members of the beat generation.
