Clifford Dyment

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Clifford Henry Dyment (1914 – 1971) was a British poet, literary critic and editor, and journalist, best known for his poems on countryside topics.

He was brought up in Caerleon-on-Usk. His father has been killed in World War I. His first published collection was First Day (1935). During the latter part of the 1930s he was a literary figure in London. During World War II he was engaged to make films, working for the British government.

[edit] Works

• First Day (1935)
• Straight or Curly (1937)
• The Axe in the Wood (1944)
• Thomas Hood, Selected Poems (1948, Grey Walls Press) editor
• Poems 1935-1948 (1949)
• Experiences and Places (1955)
• The Railway Game : An Early Autobiography (1962)
• Collected Poems (1970)