Milner Place

Milner Place (born January 25, 1930 in Thirsk , North Yorkshire ) is a British writer .

Life

Before his military service from 1948 to 1950, he worked as a logger, then briefly studied at an agricultural college, worked as a bartender and ran a farm. In 1953 he sailed to South Africa and worked in a copper mine. In 1955 he returned to England and worked in the journalistic field. In 1958 he sailed to New York and lived in the Bahamas from 1958 to 1961 .

In 1961 he bought his own ship and sailed it to Mallorca via Miami and England . During the Algerian war he worked as a smuggler . He spent the years 1962 and 1963 in Bilbao and Madrid. In 1965, as captain , he transferred a sailing ship built in the Netherlands to Lisbon. In the following years he drove several ocean regattas with Juan Carlos de Bourbon, who later became King of Spain . In 1966 he converted a barge into a yacht in Denmark . In 1967 and 1968 he operated a yacht charter for wedding couples in Malta and regularly sailed the route via Lampedusato Tunesia. In 1969 he was a consultant for Forte's International Hotels in Sardinia and Greece before organizing a fishing fleet in Ecuador. Shortly thereafter, he fled to Peru on allegations of piracy . He then worked there for the Manu River project and for similar projects in Brazil and Panama. In 1971 he returned to England and then lived for a while as a photographer in the Canary Islands . In 1973 he went to Mexico to write a novel. In 1976 he moved - now with his partner Dorothy and stepson Paul - to Mallorca.

Milner Place is editor at Poetry Circle , a forum for contemporary poetry in the USA.

Works

He wrote his first poems on Mallorca in Spanish. After settling in Huddersfield / Great Britain in 1987, he began to write poetry in English.

Volumes of poetry

• En Busca de mi Alma , published in Spain 1977
• In a rare time of rain , Chatto & Windus
• The confusion of the anglers , Wide Skirt Press
• Where smoke is , Wide Skirt Press
• Piltdown Man & Bat Woman , Spout publications
• The City of Flowers , Spout publications
• Caminante , Wrecking Ball Press
• Certain matters Lapwing
• Odersfelt , Flux Gallery Press
• Naked Invitation , Lapwings Publications, Belfast
• The man who had forgotten the name of trees 2013, and The Road to Alta Mira 2018 moloko print , each with drawings by Harald Häuser

Other

He also wrote pieces for BBC Radio 3 and 4 and was featured on Bookworm on BBC1 television.

swell

• poetcasting.co.uk , accessed May 28, 2011.
• wrecking ball press , accessed May 28, 2011.
• milnerplace.electricmuseum.de