<P> James Kirkup was brought up in South Shields , educated at Westoe Secondary School , and then at King 's College , Durham University . In World War II he was a conscientious objector , and worked for the Forestry Commission and on the land in the Yorkshire Dales and at the Lansbury Gate Farm , Clavering , Essex . He taught at The Downs School in Colwall , Malvern , where W.H. Auden had earlier been a master . Kirkup wrote his first book of poetry , The Drowned Sailor at the Downs , which was published in 1947 . From 1950 to 1952 he was the first Gregory Poetry Fellow at Leeds University , making him the first resident university poet in the United Kingdom . </P>
<P> James Kirkup was brought up in South Shields , educated at Westoe Secondary School , and then at King 's College , Durham University . In World War II he was a conscientious objector , and worked for the Forestry Commission and on the land in the Yorkshire Dales and at the Lansbury Gate Farm , Clavering , Essex . He taught at The Downs School in Colwall , Malvern , where W.H. Auden had earlier been a master . Kirkup wrote his first book of poetry , The Drowned Sailor at the Downs , which was published in 1947 . From 1950 to 1952 he was the first Gregory Poetry Fellow at Leeds University , making him the first resident university poet in the United Kingdom . </P>
who was the first resident university poet in the uk
who was the first resident university poet in the uk
James Kirkup
James Kirkup