Gerard Benson

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Nationality British Name Gerard Benson		Role Poet

Full Name Gerard John Benson Born 9 April 1931 ( 1931-04-09 ) London, England Occupation Poet, teacher and author Died April 28, 2014, Oxenhope, United Kingdom Books This Poem Doesn't Rhyme, Omba Bolomba: Poems

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Gerard John Benson (9 April 1931 — 28 April 2014) was an English Quaker poet, teacher, and author. He was named poet laureate of the City of Bradford (2008) and was also active with Poems on the Underground.

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Benson had worked as an intelligence decoder in Britain and as an actor, but his vocation was poetry. Originally from London, Benson settled in Bradford in 1989 with his writer/artist wife, Cathy Griffiths; the couple lived in Manningham.

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Benson died on 28 April 2014, aged 83. Shortly before his death, the 83-year-old had recently returned from the BBC in London where he had made recordings of his poetry for the world-famous on-line Poetry Archive.

Carnival finale poem by gerard benson music by saint saens artwork by satoshi kitamura

Publications

London Poems On The Underground (1996); ISBN 978-0304349029

To Catch an Elephant (2002); ISBN 978-1902382401

Omba Bolomba (2005); ISBN 978-1902382708

Best Poems on the Underground (2009); ISBN 978-0297859079

A Good Time (2013); ISBN 978-1906613198

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