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5 unusual facts about Barry Tebb


Barry Tebb

His poetry was first published by Alan Tarling's 'Poet and Printer Press' in the sixties, along with Ted Hughes, Michael Longley and Ian Crichton Smith.

His first collection was praised by John Carey in the New Statesman and his work was included in the Penguin anthology Children of Albion: Poetry of the Underground in Britain.

Tebb's novel Pitfall Street chronicles his upbringing in 40s working class Leeds (where Peter O'Toole, Richard Hoggart, Tony Harrison, Keith Waterhouse also grew up)and gives a hilarious account of the many Gregory Fellows in Poetry at Leeds University he knew well, especially Peter Redgrove and Jon Silkin.

Cross Green, Leeds

It was the birthplace in 1942 of the poet Barry Tebb and the setting for his epic poem,'Bridge Over the Aire', considered his finest poem by Michael Haslam, a leading poet of the so-called 'Cambridge School.

Monkey Kettle

Among those whose work has been included in the magazine are: Barry Tebb (Children of Albion: Poetry of the Underground in Britain); Aoife Mannix (2001 Farrago London Slam Champion); Rogan Whitenails; and award-winning visual artist Steve Groom.



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