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Christopher Logue was a poet, screenwriter, actor and playwright. Born in Portsmouth in 1926 he served briefly in the Black Watch during and immediately after the Second World War, before spending sixteen months in a military prison. In 1952 he went to Paris where he worked on Merlin, the magazine which published Beckett. He funded his own poetry by writing pornography under the name Count Palmiro Vicarion. Back in London in the ’60s he wrote plays for the Royal Court, scripts for Ken Russell, including Sav

Among his other work his most popular poems include ‘I shall vote Labour’, ‘Come to the edge’ (often misattributed to Apollinaire) and ‘Be not too hard’, later set to music by Donovan. His Selected Poems, edited by Christopher Reid, was published in 1996. In 1985 he married the writer and historian Rosemary Hill and moved to Camberwell, where he lived until his death.

He believed in the power of poetry as a form of experience independent of other knowledge.

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