Peter Russell, born in Bristol in 1921, was editor of the influential magazine 'Nine' (1945-56). He left England in the early 1960s, and lived and taught in Germany, the USA, Canada, Iran and Italy, which was his main home since 1964. His many books include 'An Examination of Ezra Pound'(ed., 1950) and 'All for the Wolves: Selected Poems 1947-1975', published by Anvil in 1984.
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'They are readable, excellent poems, and it would be crazy to dismiss them as pastiche... The jokes are good ones, the sensory lines are exact, and Norman Douglas among others would have envied them, but the lines about death, and the jet-black shadow that death casts on other lines, make this the work of a good and even an important poet' - Peter Levi, Times Literary Supplement'Russell's Quintilius... has that quality of authority which comes when a man acheives his own tone and pitch after a lifetime learning the craft of verse' - Robert Nye, The Times