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Geoffrey Grigson
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Born in Looe, Cornwall
Born on 2nd of March 1905
Died on 25th of November 1985

Born 1905. Died 1985 - Poet, critic and editor.

Founder of the magazine New Verse (1933-39). Published Collected Poems (1963) and a further volume of verse written 1963 and 1982. Married to the cookery writer Jane Grigson.

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