Tony Connor
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Tony Connor (born 1930) is a British poet and playwright.
After leaving school at fourteen, Connor worked as a textile designer in Manchester. Since 1971 he has worked as professor of English at Wesleyan University, Connecticut. He lives in Middletown, Connecticut and London, UK. He is a close friend of the English writer Michael de Larrabeiti. The last section of Connor's collection Things Unsaid is dedicated to de Larrabeiti; de Larrabeiti's 1992 book Journal of a Sad Hermaphrodite is dedicated to Connor, and includes one of his poems.
Connor has written nine volumes of poetry. His work is included in the anthology British Poetry since 1945.
[edit] Bibliography
- With Love Somehow (1962)
- Lodgers (1965)
- Kon in Springtime (1968)
- In the Happy Valley (1971)
- The Memoirs of Uncle Harry (1974)
- New and Selected Poems (Connor) (1982)
- Spirits of the Place (1986)
- Metamorphic Adventures (1996)
- Things Unsaid: Selected Poems 1960-2005 (Anvil Press Poetry, 2006)
