Life

He was born in Liverpool, son of a Scottish family doctor and an English mother, and educated at Asheville School

Asheville School

Asheville School is a private, coeducational, college-preparatory boarding school in Asheville, North Carolina. Founded in 1900, the Asheville School campus sits on in the Blue Ridge Mountains and currently enrolls 270 students in grades nine through twelve...

, Asheville, North Carolina

Asheville, North Carolina

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, Fettes College

Fettes College

Fettes College is an independent school for boarding and day pupils in Edinburgh, Scotland with over two thirds of its pupils in residence on campus...

, Edinburgh

Edinburgh

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, and Christ Church, Oxford

Christ Church, Oxford

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.

He was a vegetable invoice clerk in Covent Garden market, night sterilizer in a food factory, waiter, film critic, supply teacher, actor (with the English Children's Theatre under Caryl Jenner) and finally librarian in Kensington, Keele, Shiraz, and lastly at Newcastle University.

His translation of Euripides' Medea was performed in theatres in London and New York in a production by Jonathan Kent

Jonathan Kent (director)

Jonathan Kent is an English theatre director and opera director. He is best known as a director/producer partner of Ian McDiarmid at the Almeida Theatre from 1990 to 2002.-Early life:...

 with Diana Rigg

Diana Rigg

Dame Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg, DBE is an English actress. She is probably best known for her portrayals of Emma Peel in The Avengers and Countess Teresa di Vicenzo in the 1969 James Bond film On Her Majesty's Secret Service....

in the leading rôle.

His poems have appeared in Oxford Poetry, The Paris Review, and many other journals.

Poetry

• On the Appian Way, 1984
• Talking Back, 1982
• Contentions, 1977
• Air in the Wrong Place, 1968

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