Andrew Thomas Knights Crozier (26 July 1943 – 3 April 2008) was a

poet A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator ( thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems ( oral or wr ...

associated with the

British Poetry Revival "The British Poetry Revival" is the general name given to a loose poetry movement in Britain that took place in the 1960s and 1970s. The revival was a modernist-inspired reaction to the Movement's more conservative approach to British poetry. T ...

Life

Crozier was educated at

Dulwich College Dulwich College is a 2–19 independent, day and boarding school for boys in Dulwich, London, England. As a public school, it began as the College of God's Gift, founded in 1619 by Elizabethan actor Edward Alleyn, with the original purpose o ...

, and later

Christ's College, Cambridge Christ's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college includes the Master, the Fellows of the College, and about 450 undergraduate and 170 graduate students. The college was founded by William Byngham in 1437 as ...

. His 1976 book ''Pleats'' won the

Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize The Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize was awarded by the Poetry Society of London for a collection of poetry. It is named after Alice Hunt Bartlett who was the American editor of the society's '' Poetry Review'' from 1923 to 1949. The prize was establis ...

, awarded jointly that year with

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. He was co-editor of the important Revival magazine ''The English Intelligencer'' and for many years ran Ferry Press, an independent poetry publisher that issued books by Anthony Barnett,

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, J. H. Prynne,

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, and others. With Tim Longville he edited the influential anthology ''A Various Art''. He also edited the poems of

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and

John Rodker John Rodker (18 December 1894 – 6 October 1955) was an English writer, modernist poet, and publisher of modernist writers. Biography John Rodker was born on 18 December 1894 in Manchester, into a Jewish immigrant family. The family moved ...

. His collected poems, ''All Where Each Is'' was published in 1985. Crozier was Professor of Prose at the

University of Sussex , mottoeng = Be Still and Know , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £14.4 million (2020) , budget = £319.6 million (2019–20) , chancellor = Sanjeev Bhaskar , vice_chancellor = Sasha Roseneil , ...

, where his research interests were listed as English and American

poetry Poetry (derived from the Greek '' poiesis'', "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language − such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre − to evoke meanings ...

and

poetics Poetics is the theory of structure, form, and discourse within literature, and, in particular, within poetry. History The term ''poetics'' derives from the Ancient Greek ποιητικός ''poietikos'' "pertaining to poetry"; also "creative" an ...

, with special reference to the romantic and modern periods.Areas of study, by subject :: University of Sussex Postgraduate Prospectus 2007
/ref> Andrew Crozier died from a brain tumour on 3 April 2008.

Bibliography

* ''Loved Litter of Time Spent'', Buffalo, NY: Sum Books, 1967 * ''Train Rides'', Pampisford, UK: R Books, 1968 * ''Walking on Grass'', London: Ferry Press, 1969 * ''In One Side & Out the Other'' (with John James & Tom Phillips), London: Ferry Press, 1970 * ''Neglected Information'', Sidcup, UK: Blacksuede Boot Press, 1972 * ''The Veil Poem'', Providence, RI: Burning Deck, 1974 * ''Printed Circuit'', Cambridge, UK: Street Editions, 1974 * ''Seven Contemporary Sun Dials'' (with Ian Potts), Brighton, UK: Brighton Festival, 1975 * ''Pleats'', Bishops Stortford, UK: Great Works Editions, 1975 * ''Residing'', Belper, UK: Aggie Weston's, 1976 * ''Duets'', Guildford, UK: Circle Press, 1976 * ''High Zero'', Cambridge, UK: Street Editions, 1978 * ''Were There'', London: Many Press, 1978 * ''Utamaro Variations'' (with Ian Tyson), London: Tetrad, 1982 * ''All Where Each Is'', London: Allardyce, Barnett, 1985 * ''A Various Art'' (co-edited with Tim Longville), Manchester, UK: Carcanet, 1987 * ''Star Ground'', Lewes, UK: Silver Hounds, 2008 * ''"Free Verse" as Formal Restraint'', Bristol: Shearsman, 2015

References

External links

Obituary: ''Independent'' British Poetry at Y2K
A "cyber-

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" at ''Silliman's Blog'' by poet

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includes comments, tributes, and links
The Death of Andrew Crozier
obituary at the EYEWEAR website
Records of Andrew Crozier are held by Simon Fraser University's Special Collections and Rare Books
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