Life
1927- ; b. Cork; son of Methodist minister and missionary; lived first
five years in India, ed. in school in Ireland and at TCD; retired from
Snr. Lecturer in English Dept. at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1983 [var. since
1970], and returned to Ireland; composer with pieces performed by several
orchestras; wrote reviews for in Guardian, 1970s; Collected Poems (Lagan 2002); another collection, Under the Rainbow (2004). DIW
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Works
Poems [The Fantasy Poets, 35; gen. eds. Bernard Berzoni & Oscar
Mellor] (Oxford : Fantasy Press 1957); [8]pp.; Control Tower (1962);
Differences (1969), Humours (Sutherland 1978); Humours
(1978), ill. Dick Ward; Heartwood (Newcastle 1978); The
Broken Circle (1981); In Praise of Warmth: New and Selected Poems
(Dedalus 1987); In Praise of Warmth: New and Selected Poems
(Dublin: Dedalus Press 1987). Miscellaneous, a review of Seamus Heaney,
Guardian ( [n.d.] 1972); Rock and Water (1993); Collected Poems,
intro. Fred Johnston (Belfast: Lagan Press 2002), 246pp.; Under the Rainbow (Belfast: Lagan Press 2004), 100pp.
Anthology-ontributions incl. Robin Skelton, ed., Six Irish Poets (London: OUP 1962); Katie Donovan, A. N. Jeffares & Brendan Kennelly, eds., Ireland’s Women (Dublin: G&M 1994); and John F. Deane, ed.,] Dedalus Irish Poets (1992), pp.71-78 [with biographical notice].
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Criticism
Rory Brennan, review of Richard Kell, Collected Poems, intro.
Fred Johnston (Lagan Press), in Books Ireland (Summer 2002), p.157.
John Greening, short notice of Collected Poems, 1962-1993 (Lagan Press [2002]).
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)