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A Survey of African Poetry in the London Times, Sunday Times, Financial Times, the Times Literary Supplement 1865-1985
Plomer, William
Biography
South Africa
Birth date: 1903-12-10
Birth location:
Pietersburg,
South Africa
Death date: 1973-09-21
William Plomer was a British and South African writer; born in South Africa in 1903, he moved to England in 1929. In 1926 Plomer and Roy Campbell founded the satirical magazine Voorslag ("Whiplash"). He is recognized as a respected modernist poet.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Plomer
News Items (8)
- Poets from Abroad (1958-06-13) | Poet
- From veld-lovers to freedom fighters (1980-11-21) | Poet
- South African Bard (1957-06-28) | Mentioned Poet
- Voices from South Africa (1949-07-01) | Poet
- Poetry Gala (1969-02-04) | Poet
- Power of the Pen in Exile: The Times Profile, Breyten Breytenbach (1984-04-26) | Mentioned Poet
- Sounding the Sixties--2: The Commonwealth (1965-09-16) | Poet
- A New Look in Writing (1960-05-31) | Poet
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Related Works (32)
- Poets in South Africa: An Anthology (1958) (Poet)
- A Book of African Verse, selected and introduced by Guy Butler (1959) (Poet)
- South African Poetry. A New Anthology, with a Foreword by Roy Campbell (1948) (Poet)
- Notes for Poems (1927) (Poet)
- Notes for Poems (1927) (Work Author)
- The Family Tree (1929) (Poet)
- The Family Tree (1929) (Work Author)
- The Fivefold Screen (1932) (Poet)
- The Fivefold Screen (1932) (Work Author)
- Visiting the Caves (1936) (Poet)
- Visiting the Caves (1936) (Work Author)
- Selected Poems (1940) (Poet)
- Selected Poems (1940) (Work Author)
- In a Bombed House, 1941 (1942) (Poet)
- In a Bombed House, 1941 (1942) (Work Author)
- The Dorking Thigh and Other Satires (1945) (Poet)
- The Dorking Thigh and Other Satires (1945) (Work Author)
- A Shot in the Park (1955) (Poet)
- A Shot in the Park (1955) (Work Author)
- William Plomer: Collected Poems (1960) (Poet)
- William Plomer: Collected Poems (1960) (Work Author)
- A Choice of Ballads (1960) (Poet)
- A Choice of Ballads (1960) (Work Author)
- Taste and Remember (1966) (Poet)
- Taste and Remember (1966) (Work Author)
- William Plomer: Collected Poems (1973) (Poet)
- William Plomer: Collected Poems (1973) (Work Author)
- The Autobiography of William Plomer (1975) (Poet)
- The Autobiography of William Plomer (1975) (Work Author)
- Electric Delights. Selected and introduced by Rupert Hart-Davis. (1978) (Poet)
- Electric Delights. Selected and introduced by Rupert Hart-Davis. (1978) (Work Author)
- New Poems 1961. P. E. N. Anthology (1961) (Editor)
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- Wright, David (4)
- Butler, Guy (8)
- Slater, Francis Carey 'F. C.' (7)
- Delius, Anthony 'Ronald St. Martin' (4)
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- Paton, Alan (3)
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- Krige, Uys (3)
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