Career
Green co-founded the literary periodical Nimbus (1951-1958) with Tristram Hull and later worked as an editor at MacGibbon & Kee, where he published alongside Timothy O"Keeffe books such as Nell Dunn"s Up the Junction (1963). They went on to form their own publishing house, Martin Brian & O"Keeffe, with the editor Brian Rooney. Here, Green collected and published Patrick Kavanagh, following the suggestion of the painter Patrick Swift and the poet Anthony Cronin.
Green also published books by Flann O"Brien, Hugh MacDiarmid, Francis Stuart, Colin MacInnes, Robert Graves, Frank Sargeson, Paul Potts and many other writers.
In 1969, with poet Paul Durcan, Green also started the poetry quarterly Two Rivers, which was published from his home at 28 Tottenham Street, London. The title referred to the River Thames of London and the Liffey of Durcan"s Dublin, Ireland.
Green published eight books of his own, as well as four plays, and contributions to numerous other publications including The Other Jerome K. Jerome (1984) and Myles Away from Dublin (1985). He had six children and lived in Newlyn, Cornwall, with his cat Nefertiti.
Green died on 4 February 2015 at the age of 82.
