he worked in London for the BBC European Service, mainly on broadcasting to German-occupied countries. From 1945 to 1948 he was Principal of the College of St Mark and St John in Chelsea, London, where one of his colleagues was the biologist Cyril Bibby. He died of leukaemia in 1948. Michael and Janet Roberts had built up a large collection of books on mountaineering, which (along with the collection of the Oxford University Mountaineering Club) provided a basis for establishment in December 1992 of the Oxford Mountaineering Library. From 2019 this is based in the Geography collections in the Social Science Library, which is in the Manor Road Building, Oxford OX1 3UQ. Many of his papers are in the National Library of Scotland, at Edinburgh. They include literary correspondence, and also records of his BBC service in 1941–5. Poets in New Signatures (1932) W. H. Auden, Julian Bell, C. Day-Lewis, Richard Eberhart, William Empson, John Lehmann, William Plomer, Stephen Spender, A. S. J. Tessimond Poets in New Country (1933) W. H. Auden, Richard Goodman, C. Day-Lewis, John Lehmann, Charles Madge, Michael Roberts, Stephen Spender, A. S. J. Tessimond, Rex Warner Books by Michael Roberts These Our Matins (poems), Elkin Mathews & Marrot, London, 1930. (ed.) New Signatures: Poems by Several Hands, Hogarth Press, London, 1932. (ed.) New Country: Prose and Poetry by the authors of New Signatures, Hogarth Press, London, 1933. (ed.) Elizabethan Prose, London, Jonathan Cape, 1933. (with E.R. Thomas) Newton and the Origin of Colours: A Study of One of the Earliest Examples of Scientific Method, G. Bell, London, 1934. Critique of Poetry, Jonathan Cape, London, 1934. Poems, Jonathan Cape, London, 1936. (ed.) The Faber Book of Modern Verse, Faber & Faber, London, 1936. The Modern Mind, Faber & Faber, London, 1937. T.E. Hulme, Faber & Faber, London, 1938. Orion Marches (poems), Faber & Faber, London, 1939. The Recovery of the West, Faber & Faber, London, 1941. (ed.) The Faber Book of Comic Verse, Faber & Faber, London, 1942. The Estate of Man, Faber & Faber, London, 1951. Collected Poems, Faber & Faber, London, 1958. Examples of Work La Meije 1937: A poem written in the late 1930's reflecting the Author's love of climbing, the euphoria and the reflection of the final parts of a descent from a good climb. It was dedicated to his friend, climbing partner, Alpine guide and founder of the Summer Ski School of