Cliff Ashby
Clifford Ashby, generally known as Cliff Ashby, (10 November 1919 – 30 April 2012) was a British poet and novelist. He was born in Norfolk in 1919, and left school aged 14, taking a job as a window dresser in Leeds. He was a conscientious objector in the Second World War, undertaking agricultural work in lieu of military service.
Cliff Ashby
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- 1919
- Died
- 2012
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- Old, Old Story ( / ), Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, 1969
- In the Vulgar Tongue ( / ), Hodder and Stoughton, 1968
- Howe and Why, Hodder and Stoughton, 1970
- The Dogs of Dewsbury Poems, Carcanet Press
- Lies and Dreams Poems, Carcanet Press
- Plain Song: Collected Poems, Carcanet, 1985
- A Few Late Flowers, HappenStance Press, 2008
- Carcanet Press http://www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?owner_id=17
- Supplement, The Scotsman https://web.archive.org/web/20100316083048/http://www.thesupplement.co.uk/2008/03/29/cliff-ashby-beauty-from-a-veteran%E2%80%99s-pen/
- Poetry Nation http://www.pnreview.co.uk/ip002.shtml
- Yorkshire Post http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/books/Literary-peaks-of-the-Pennine.1783711.jp
- Poetry Library, Southbank Centre, Ashby's poem: Latter Day Psalms https://web.archive.org/web/20120222050320/http://www.poetrymagazines.org.uk/magazine/record.asp?id=6144
- Cliff Ashby Papers at the Harry Ransom Center
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