Who is Lee Harwood
Lee Harwood (6 June 1939 – 26 July 2015) was a poet associated with the British Poetry Revival.Life
Travers Rafe Lee Harwood was born in Leicester to maths teacher Wilfred Travers Lee-Harwood and Grace Ladkin Harwood, who were then living in Chertsey, Surrey. His father was an army reservist and called up as war started; after the evacuation from Dunkirk he was posted to Africa until 1947 and saw little of his son. Between 1958–61 Harwood studied English at Queen Mary College, University of London and continued living in London until 1967. During that time he worked as a monumental mason's mate, a librarian and a bookshop assistant. He was also a member of the Beat scene and in 1963 was involved in editing the one issue magazines Night Scene and Night Train fe...
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Lee Harwood Poems
- Pagham Harbour Spring
The blur of sky and sea
this white grey morning
before the day burns
moves into blue ... - The Final Painting
The white cloud passed over the land
there is sea always round the land
the sky is blue always above the cloud
the cloud in the blue continues to move ... - The Words
Clouds scattered across the sky &nbs p;all so far away
and then the space between this strange 'distance'
What does 'normal' mean, after all? &nb sp;you move
toward the window & nbsp;lights marking the headland... - Landscapes
The ridges either side of the valley
were covered in dark pine forest.
The ploughed hill sides were red,
and the pastures were very green.... - The 'utopia'
The table was filled with many objects
The wild tribesmen in the hills,
whose very robes were decorated with designs...
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Marty_mcfly27: please share - this is lee mazzone, he's the gk for my u12s team and he's missing from the wallasey area since 3pm today. we are all out looking for him and police are aware, it's out of characterEyeswideopen69: as the deputy political editor of gbnews, tom harwood is jacob rees-mogg’s and lee anderson’s boss… the blindly stupid leading the willfully ignorant.
Microbius: i think about paul evans' selected poems the door at taldir (which i edited) and the new harwood collected which i co-edited, and link to the intros of these poets of the brighton school (a 1970s joke!)
Bmillsbilly: reading the lee harwood new collected sent me back to this old piece. john ashbery: the syntax of time - drb
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