- Tony Connor
Tony Connor (born John Anthony Connor,
Manchester , U.K. 1930) is a British poet and playwright.After leaving school at fourteen, Connor served in the Royal Army as a tank gunner, and later worked as a textile designer and in radio and television in Manchester in the 1960s. From 1971 until he retired in 1999 Connor was professor of English at
Wesleyan University inMiddletown, Connecticut . He lives in Middletown and London. He is a close friend of, among many others, the English writersJ.G. Ballard andMichael de Larrabeiti . One section of Connor's 2006 anthology "" is dedicated to de Larrabeiti; de Larrabeiti's 1992 bookJournal of a Sad Hermaphrodite is dedicated to Connor, and includes one of his poems.Connor has published nine volumes of poetry. His work anthologized in
British Poetry since 1945 . Connor was named a Fellow of theRoyal Society of Literature in 1974.Bibliography
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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)
*"" (Anvil Press Poetry, 2006)
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