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Section: Poets in the News
Poet Name: Plomer, William
Given Name: William
Last Name: Plomer
Date of Birth: 10 December 1903
Biography: William Plomer was a British and South African writer; born in South Africa in 1903, he moved to England in 1929. In 1926 Plomer and Roy Campbell founded the satirical magazine Voorslag ("Whiplash"). He is recognized as a respected modernist poet.

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News Items: Poetry Gala; Power of the Pen in Exile: The Times Profile, Breyten Breytenbach; A New Look in Writing; From veld-lovers to freedom fighters; Outside England; Sounding the Sixties--2: The Commonwealth; Voices from South Africa
Events: apdp.event.000031; 60th Birthday of William Plomer, President of the Poetry Society
Works: South African Poetry. A New Anthology, with a Foreword by Roy Campbell; William Plomer: Collected Poems; New Poems 1961. P. E. N. Anthology; The Family Tree; William Plomer: Collected Poems; Notes for Poems; The Fivefold Screen; In a Bombed House, 1941; A Choice of Ballads; A Book of African Verse, selected and introduced by Guy Butler; Selected Poems; A Shot in the Park; Taste and Remember; Visiting the Caves; The Dorking Thigh and Other Satires; The Autobiography of William Plomer; Poets in South Africa: An Anthology; Electric Delights. Selected and introduced by Rupert Hart-Davis.
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Place of Birth: South Africa, Pietersburg
Spatial Coverage: Pietersburg
Region: Southern Africa
Type: Poets in the News