Raymond Garlick
Raymond Garlick | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1926 |
| Died | 2011 Cardiff, U.K. |
| Occupation(s) | Poet and editor |
| Children | Molly Garlick |
Raymond Garlick (21 September 1926 – 19 March 2011) was an Anglo-Welsh poet, editor, critic, political campaigner and teacher.[1][2]
Biography
Raymond Garlick was born on 21 September 1926 in London, but as a child he spent holidays at his grandparents' house in Deganwy in Conwy County Borough; and he grew up in Llandudno. He went on to study English literature at Bangor University. While there, he became a Roman Catholic Christian, but later was no longer practising. By the 1940s he had met the painter, Brenda Chamberlain, and while still a student at Bangor he rented from her part of Ty'r Mynydd, the cottage she had shared with the artist, John Petts.
In 1949, at the age of twenty-three, he became a founding editor of the review, Dock Leaves (later re-named Anglo-Welsh Review).
In the 1960s he taught in the Netherlands; but in 1967 he returned to Britain, and eventually became Principal Lecturer in Welsh Studies at Trinity College, Carmarthen (now part of the University of Wales, Trinity Saint David). There with enthusiasm he introduced his students to the works of such writers as David Jones, Idris Davies, Glyn Jones, Alun Lewis, Dylan Thomas, R. S. Thomas, John Ormond and Leslie Norris. His own poetry was influenced by the writings of Roy Campbell, and of R. S. Thomas and John Cowper Powys.
In 1995, during Swansea's Year of Literature, a portrait of Garlick was made by the painter, Gordon Stuart.
He died on 19 March 2011 at Cardiff.
The poet Peter Finch, chief executive of Academi (the Welsh national literature promotion agency and society of writers), described Raymond Garlick as one of the five best mid-20th century English writers in Wales - along with R. S. Thomas, Leslie Norris, John Tripp and Harri Webb.[3]
Works
- Poems from the Mountain-House (1950)
- Landscapes and figures: Selected poems 1949-63 (1964)
- A Sense of Europe (1968)
- A Sense of Time (1972)
- Incense (1976)
- Anglo-Welsh Poetry, (1480-1980) (ed.)
- Collected Poems 1946 - 86
- Travel Notes (1992)
- The Delphic Voyage and Other Poems (2003)
References
- ^ Raymond Garlick
- ^ News and Events at the University of Wales, Bangor
- ^ "Tributes paid to Anglo-Welsh poet Raymond Garlick". BBC News Online. 23 March 2011. Retrieved 23 March 2011.
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