Career

His interests included theatre and "pataphysics. In the early 1950s he contributed poems and designed covers for the literary magazines Listen and Stand and contributed translations to Chanticleer, a magazine edited by the poet Ewart Milne. His English translation of A Hundred Thousand Billion Poems was received with "admiring stupefaction" by Raymond Queneau.

Everyone Knows by Raymond Queneau

Darwin certainly saw the importance of the earthworm by Raymond Queneau

Heartsnatcher by Boris Vian

Froth on the Daydream by Boris Vian

Autumn in Pekin by Boris Vian (unpublished)

The Night-Watch by Arthur Rimbaud in Liberty or Love by Robert Desnos.

The novel itself was translated by Terry Hale. Camille Renault, 1866-1954, World-Maker. by Jean Hugues Sainmont

Deliquescences by Adoré Floupette

Bibi-Louisiana-Bibiste by Raymonde Linossier.

Achievements

• He was involved with founding the National Theatre of London, was a member of Oulipo of the year 1961, founder of the Outrapo and a member also of the French Collège de "Pataphysique, the London Institute of "Pataphysics and the Lewis Carroll Society.

Membership

College of "Pataphysics.