George MacBeth

George MacBeth (born January 19, 1932 in Shotts , North Lanarkshire , Great Britain , † February 16, 1992 in Tuam , Galway , Ireland ) was a Scottish writer and poet .

Life

MacBeth grew up in Sheffield and attended King Edward VII Grammar School there. At the age of twelve he got rheumatic fever . He graduated from New College, Oxford in 1955 and then went to London . There MacBeth became a member of The Group , an association of poets founded by Philip Hobsbaum and Edward Lucie-Smith , who made it their goal to write naturalistic and often brutal poetry. Her work was published in A Group Anthology in 1963 . In addition, George MacBeth was a producer of poetry programs for the BBC between 1955 and 1976 .

His poems like The Broken Places are about The Group , often about violence, sex, death and war. In 1964 he received the first Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize for his work The Broken Places . MacBeth also wrote several novels and children's books, and was the editor of over 20 poetry anthologies .

In 1989 he moved to Tuam, Ireland with his third and last wife. George MacBeth died there in 1992, one month after his 60th birthday, of a motor nervous system disease.

Works

• A Form of Words (1954)
• The Broken Places (1963)
• The Color of Blood (1967)
• A Poet's Year (1974)
• The Samurai (1976)
• The Seven Witches (1978)
• Poems of Love and Death (1980)
• The Long Darkness (1983)
• Anna's Book (1983)
• A Child of the War (1987)
• Anatomy of a Divorce (1988)
• Trespassing: Poems from Ireland (1991)
• The Patient (1992)
• The Testament of Spencer (1992)

Web links

• complete literature list