A Survey of African Poetry in the London Times, Sunday Times, Financial Times, the Times Literary Supplement 1865-1985

Leo Aylen was born in South Africa in 1935 and is an author, actor, director, screenwriter, and poet. In 2001, he was awarded a Royal Literary Fund Fellowship and was a Writer in Residence at the Byam Shaw School of Art and then at the University of Bath in 2002. His poetry has been published in one hundred anthologies. Aylen actively travels and performs poetry at universities around the world.