GEORGE MACBETH A POETS YEAR 1973 1st edition

Victor Gollancz, 1973. First Edition. Ex library copy with small stamp on title and insert removed form fep. 73 pp. Good+.

George Mann MacBeth (1932 to 1992) was a Scottish poet and novelist. He was born in Shotts, Lanarkshire.

He was educated in Sheffield at King Edward VII School where he was Head Prefect in 1951 (photo), before going up to New College, Oxford, with an Open Scholarship in Classics.

He joined BBC Radio on graduating in 1955 from the University of Oxford. He worked there, as a producer of programmes on poetry, until 1976. He was a member of The Group.

He resigned from the BBC to take up novel writing; he introduced a series of thrillers involving the spy, Cadbury. In his later post-BBC years, as his influence waned and after an acrimonious divorce, his second wife gleefully reported that MacBeth himself was the source of the occasional rumor that he was on the shortlist to become England's next poet laureate.

Poems from Oby (1982) was a Choice of the Poetry Book Society; Oby is a Norfolk village. He received a Geoffrey Faber Memorial Award for his work.

He died in Tuam, County Galway, Ireland.