Cliff Ashby
J. Clifford Ashby, generally known as Cliff Ashby, (10 November 1919 – 30 April 2012[1]) was a British poet and novelist.
He was born in Norfolk in 1919,[citation needed] and left school aged 14, taking a job as a window dresser in Leeds.
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As a poet he came to light through X magazine.
His poetry collections include In the Vulgar Tongue (1968), The Dogs of Dewsbury (1976), Lies and Dreams (1980), Plain Song: Collected Poems (1985)[citation needed] and A Few Late Flowers (2007).[1] His novels are The Old Old Story and How and Why (both 1969).[citation needed]
He died at home on 30 April 2012.[1]
On Ashby's Few Late Flowers (2008) Robert Nye says: "He has just published what must be the most remarkable swansong offered by a writer in their 89th year...A sequence of quietly original poems, it is the bittersweet distillation of a lifetime's experience" [2]
Bibliography
- Old, Old Story (ISBN 0-340-10940-8), Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, 1969
- In the Vulgar Tongue (ISBN 0-340-02685-5), Hodder and Stoughton, 1968
- Howe and Why, Hodder and Stoughton, 1970
- The Dogs of Dewsbury Poems, Carcanet Press
- Lies and Dreams Poems, Carcanet Press
- Plain Song: Collected Poems, Carcanet, 1985
- A Few Late Flowers, HappenStance Press, 2008
References
- ^ a b c d "Ashby, Cliff". HappenStance Press. 2012. Archived from the original (obituary) on 25 January 2013.
- ^ Robert Nye in The Scotsman
Further reading
- Carcanet Press [1]
- Supplement, The Scotsman [2]
- Poetry Nation [3]
- Yorkshire Post [4]
- Poetry Library, Southbank Centre, Ashby's poem: Latter Day Psalms [5]
- Cliff Ashby Papers at the Harry Ransom Center
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