R. N. Currey

Ralph Nixon "R.N." Currey (14 December 1907 – 18 November 2001) was a South African born poet, who wrote in English. He was born in Mafeking, South Africa. His father was an English Methodist minister who had come out with the British troops at the end of the Boer War. He attended Kingswood School, Bath and Wadham College, Oxford.^[1] Currey married Stella Martin in 1932. He taught at the Royal Grammar, Colchester (1934–73).

He was called up in 1941 to the Royal Corps of Signals before transferring to the Royal Artillery where he received his commission. In 1945 T. S. Eliot wrote to him about his work This Other Planet, telling him that he though it was "the best war poetry in the correct sense of the term that I have seen in these past years".^[2]

He died at home in Colchester, England.^[3]

Works

Tiresias, Oxford University, 1940
Heavy Guns, New English Weekly, 1942
The Poetry Magazine July 1944^[4]
This Other Planet, 1945
Poems from India (Bombay, 1945) (London, 1946)
Indian Landscape, Routledge, 1947
Formal Spring, OUP, 1950
Poets of the 1949-1945 War, British Council, 1951 (Longmans, 1967)^[5]
Letters of a Natal sheriff: Thomas Phipson, 1969
The Africa We Knew, David Philip, 1973
Vinnicombe's Trek, 1989^[6]
Collected Poems, James Currey publishers, 2001^[7]

References

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