Life
He was born in London, and went to school in Dulwich. He worked as a civil servant, leaving in 1933 to write full time; he became a journalist and reviewer. His first poetry appeared in Robert Blatchford's Clarion, and he contributed verse to periodicals for the rest of his life.
His first post as a literary editor was with the New Leader, organ of the Independent Labour Party. He was director of the Oxford Festival of Spoken Poetry during the 1930s. His much-anthologised World War I poem 'Mud' first appeared in Life and Letters, January 1935.
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