Clifford Dyment

He spent his early childhood in Caerleon-on-Usk but was educated at Loughborough Grammar School in Leicestershire. His father was killed in World War I. His first published collection was First Day (1935). During the latter part of the 1930s he was a literary figure in London. During World War II he was engaged to make films, working for the British government.

Works

• First Day (1935)
• Straight or Curly (1937)
• The Axe in the Wood (1944)
• Thomas Hood, Selected Poems (1948, Grey Walls Press) editor
• Poems 1935-1948 (1949)
• Experiences and Places (1955)
• The Railway Game : An Early Autobiography (1962)
• C. Day Lewis (1963 biography
• Collected Poems (1970)

References