- Keith Bullen (poet)
Keith Brebner Bullen (died 1946) was a British poet and teacher who was part of the Salamander group in
Cairo duringWorld War II .Early life and schools
Bullen was the son of W A Bullen who had emigrated to
Cape Town in 1891, and was born and brought up in Cape Town. In the 1920s he was a member of the teaching staff at The English School, in Cairo. At the school he met, and married in 1928, Wanda Tomlinson the daughter of Robert Tomlinson, Director ofSalt's Brewery inBurton on Trent . They returned to England to set up a preparatory school atMalvern . Bullen, though a brilliant English scholar was no businessman and the school failed in 1934. He returned to Cairo to work for theBritish Council . They were appointed by the council to run the Gezira Preparatory School, a British Council School in a Cairo suburb. The school was attended byEdward Said .Poetry
During his time in Cairo Bullen co-founded the Salamander Society of poets and writers, along with Sir John Waller and John Cromer Braun, an intelligence officer. The society rescued the work of the
Cairo poets when they had been posted all over the Middle East and published it in . The 5,000-copy edition sold out in six weeks. Bullen also wrote and published his own poetry including translations from French poets.Mrs Bullen's schools
Bullen died in 1948, but his widow founded her own school,
Manor House School , inZamalek , Cairo. This was in a flourishing condition and had just opened a new branch in Mohandeseen, Cairo, when sequestered by the Egyptian authorities at the time of theSuez crisis . Mrs Bullen and her daughter Anne moved toBeirut where they reopened the school. However after the outbreak of trouble in theLebanon they had to leave. In 1976 at the request of the Egyptian government, Mrs Bullen, now aged 72, and her daughter reopened the Manor House School inHeliopolis , Cairo. A year later in 1977, the Mohandeseen branch was opened, and the school had 600 pupils. Mrs Bullen died in 1979.Publications
*Salamander:A Miscellany of Poetry
*We stand alone... and other war sonnets
*Bells on the Breeze and other poems
*Charles Baudelaire:Un Poete Maudit
*Albert Samain: Un Pastelliste Exquis
*Alfred de Musset:Souvenir and other poems
*Paul Verlaine:Un Poete SaturnienReferences
*Edward Said "Out of Place"
* [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_19950221/ai_n13967334 The Independent: Obituary of Sir John Waller by Victor Selwyn 21 February 1995]External links
* [http://manor.rhazes.com/ Manor House School]
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