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Roy Broadbent Fuller

Male : Poet, novelist, & critic. Married Kathleen Smith in 1936. Father of poet, John Fuller
Nationality : English Place of Birth : Failsworth, Lancashire

Date of Birth : 1912 Date of Death : 1991 Age : 79

Pseudonyms : Mark Members

Other Work : Professor of Poetry, Oxford 1968-73. Solicitor & Director of the Woolwich Building Society

Education : Privately educated & Blackpool HS
1939-1950
Poems
(1939) (1940 Fortune Press) - 1st Book
The Middle of a War
(1942 Hogarth Press)
A Lost Season
(1944 Hogarth Press)
Savage Gold : A Story of Adventure
(1946 Lehmann) - Robert Medley
With My Little Eye : A Mystery Story for Teenagers
(1948 Lehmann) - Alan Lindsay
Epitaphs and Occasions
(1949 John Lehmann)

1951-1960
The Second Curtain
(1953 Verschoyle 10/6) - Novel
Fantasy and Fugue
(1954 Verschoyle 12/6)
Counterparts
(1954 Derek Verschoyle, London)
Image of a Society
(1956 Deutsch 13/6) - Novel
Brutus's Orchard : Poems
(1957 Deutsch)
That Distant Afternoon
(1959 Macmillan NY)
The Ruined Boys
(1959 Deutsch 15/-) - Novel

1961-1970
The Father's Comedy
(1961 Deutsch) - Novel
Collected Poems 1936-1961
(1962 Deutsch)
The Perfect Pool
(1963 Deutsch) - Novel
Buff : Poems
(1965 Deutsch)
My Child, My Sister
(1965 Deutsch) - Novel
Catspaw
(1966 Alan Ross) - David Gollins
New Poems
(1968 Deutsch 15/-)
Off Course
(1969 Turret Books, London) - 250 signed & numbered
Penguin Modern Poets 18
(1970)
To an Unknown Reader : Poster Poem
(nd.1970 Poem of the Month Club)
The Carnal Island
(1970 Deutsch) - Novel

1971-1980
Owls and Artifices : Oxford Lectures on Poetry
(1971 Deutsch)
Song Cycle from a record Sleeve
(1972 Sycamore Press) - 60 signed
Seen Grandpa Lately ?
(1972 Deutsch) - Joan Hickson. Verse
Professors and Gods : Last Oxford Lectures on Poetry
(1973 Deutsch)
An Old War
(1974 Tragara Press)
The Joke Shop Annexe
(1975 TP)
From the Joke Shop
(1975 Deutsch)
An Ill-Goverened Coast
(1976 Ceolfrith 35, Sunderland) - 750. Barry Hirst
Poor Roy : Poems for Children
(1977 Deutsch £3.95) - Nicolas Bentley
re-Treads
(1979 TP)
The Other Planet & Three Other Fables
(1979 Keepsake Press) - 275
The Reign of Sparrows
(1980 London Magazine Editions)
Souvenirs
(Autobiography) (1980 London Magazine Editions £4.95)

1981-1985
More About Tompkins & Other Light Verse
(1981 Tragara) - 135
Vamp Till Ready : Further Memoirs
(1982 London Magazine Editions)
Poems for Roy Fuller on his Seventieth Birthday
(1982 Sycamore Press, Oxford) - poems by others
The Individual and His Times : A Selection of the Poetry of Roy Fuller
(1982 Athlone Press) - edited by V J Lee
Howard Castled : A Poem dedicated to Lord Howard of Henderskelfe
(1983 Westerham Press) - 150
Mianserin Sonnets
(1984 Tragara Press, Edinburgh) - 145
Home and Dry : Memoirs III
(1984 LME)
Twelfth Night : A Personal View
(1985 Tragara) - Ltd Ed 135
New & Collected Poems : 1934-1984
(1985 Secker & Warburg £14.95)
Subsequent to Summer
(1985 Salamander Press)
Mark Members : Iron Aspidistra
(1985 Sycamore Press)
[Published in honour of Anthony Powell's 80th birthday]

After 1986
Outside the Canon
(1986 Tragara Press) - 135
Consolations : Poems
(1987 Secker & Warburg)
Lessons of the Summer
(1987 Tragara) - Ltd Ed 135
Available for Dreams
(1989 Collins Harvill)
The World Through the Window : Collected Poems for Children
(1989 Blackie) - Nick Duffy
Stares
(1990 Sinclair-Stevenson £12.95) - Novel
Spanner and Pen : Post-War Memoirs
(1991 Sinclair-Stevenson £16.95)

READING
Neil Powell : Roy Fuller - Writer and Society
(1995 Carcanet £25)

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