R.F. LANGLEY was born in Rugby in 1938. He was educated at Jesus College, Cambridge, and taught English and art history at Midlands secondary schools. In 1999 he retired to Suffolk. His Collected Poems (2000) was shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize for Poetry. He died in 2011. JEREMY NOEL-TOD is a Lecturer in English and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. He was the revising editor of the Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry (2013).
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"The quality of Langley's writing is extraordinary. On first reading I found myself bolt upright, the book falling from my hands as his poetry tore through me." --Randolph Healey, Irish poet "The quality of Langley s writing is extraordinary. On first reading I found myself bolt upright, the book falling from my hands as his poetry tore through me." Randolph Healey, Irish poet"