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He was born in London and educated at Merton College, Oxford . He taught until 1979 , when he became a full-time writer. He participated in Philip Hobsbaum 's weekly poetry discussion meetings known as The Group .


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  • Travellers Alone (1954) poems

  • The Railings (1961) poems

  • To Clear the River (1964) novel, as John Berrington

  • Penguin Modern Poets 14 (1965) with Michael Hamburger , Charles Tomlinson

  • The Lions' Mouths (1967)

  • A Day by Indirections (1969) broadsheet poem

  • First I Say This: A Selection of Poems for Reading Aloud (1969) editor

  • Sandgrains On A Tray (1969)

  • Woman Reading Aloud (1969) broadsheet poem

  • Synopsis (1970)

  • Brownjohn's Beasts (1970)

  • Transformation Scene (1971) broadside poem

  • An Equivalent (1971) poem

  • New Poems 1970 - 71. A P.E.N. Anthology of Contemporary Poetry (1971) edited with Seamus Heaney and John Stallworthy

  • Warrior's Career (1972)

  • She Made of It (1974)

  • A Song of Good Life (1975)

  • Philip Larkin (1975)

  • New Poetry 3, Arts Council antholigy (1977) edited with Maureen Duffy

  • A Night in the Gazebo (1980)

  • Nineteen Poems (1980)

  • Collected Poems 1952 – 1983 (1983)

  • The Old Flea-Pit (1987)

  • The Observation Car (1990) poems

  • The Gregory Anthology 1987-1990 (1990) editor with K. W. Gransden

  • The Way You Tell Them: A Yarn of the Nineties (1990) novel

  • Inertia Reel (1992) broadside poem

  • In the Cruel Arcade (1994)

  • The Long Shadows (1997) novel

  • Horace by Pierre Corneille (1997) translator

  • The Cat without E-mail ( Enitharmon Press 2001)

  • A Funny Old Year (2001) novel

  • The Men Around Her Bed ( Enitharmon Press 2004))



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