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textsrecent publicationsSpaces In (Pig Press, Newcastle-upon-Tyne 1977) His work has also appeared in several anthologies including: Other. British and Irish Poetry since 1970, ed. Ric Caddel & Peter Quartermain (Wesleyan University Press, Hanover and London 1999) biographical noteJohn Seed was born in 1950 and brought up in the North-East of England. One Saturday morning in 1968 he discovered a copy of Basil Bunting’s Briggflatts in Ultima Thule bookshop in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. It cost 10 shillings and sixpence. From this starting place he bought and read volume after volume of the Objectivists and the Black Mountain poets. And Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams. He sat in the dark corners of many Morden Tower poetry readings in Newcastle and subsequently met Ric Caddel, who first encouraged and published his work. He also corresponded with Charles Reznikoff and met George Oppen on a couple of occasions. He lived and worked in Yorkshire from 1972 to 1983, teaching at Sir Leo Schultz Senior High School, then studying and working at the Universities of Hull and Leeds. His first two books belong to the Northumbrian landscape of his childhood and his 20s – Chester-le-Street and Durham, Hull, Beverley, Spurn Point and Brough, Lindisfarne, the North Yorkshire moors, the Lake District. Since 1983 he has lived in London, teaching History at Roehampton University. New and Collected Poems, published by Shearsman Books in 2005, brings together most of his work up to that date. other websiteshttp://www.roehampton.ac.uk/staff/JohnSeed/ http://neukol.org.uk/tyneblog/index.php/tomkelly?s=John+Seed&sentence=AND&submit=Searchcontact |
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