Geoffrey Grigson

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Geoffrey Edward Harvey Grigson (1905 – 25 November 1985) was a British poet, writer, editor, critic, exhibition curator, and naturalist.

He was editor of New Verse's influential magazine in the 1930s and went on to produce 13 collections of his own poetry as well as compiling many anthologies, among other published works on topics such as art, travel, and the countryside.

In 1936, Grigson participated in the London International Surrealist Exhibition at New Burlington Galleries (exhibiting alongside artists André Breton, Salvador Dal, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Paul Nash, and others), and in 1946, he co-founded the Institute of Contemporary Arts.

In 1950, he published The Crest on the Silver.

He has worked in teaching, journalism, and broadcasting at various times.

He made several literary enemies, mostly combative.

Life and work

Grigson was born at the Pelynt vicarage, a village near Looe, Cornwall. His childhood in rural Cornwall had a major influence on his poetry and writing. His fascination with natural objects (plants, bones, and stones) as a youth were ignited at the home of family friends at Polperro, who were both painters and amateur naturalists. He was educated at St John's School, Leatherhead, and Oxford's St Edmund Hall.

After graduating from Oxford University, Grigson began working at the Yorkshire Post in London, before moving on to become the Morning Post's literary editor. He first came to fame in the 1930s as a poet and then as editor of the influential poetry journal New Verse, from 1933 to 1939. Concrete poetry by Alberto Giacometti, including Louis MacNeice, Stephen Spender, Dylan Thomas, W. H. Auden, and Grigson himself, was included in a collection of influential writers, including Louis MacNeice, Stephen Spender, Stephen Thomas, Grigson's brother, and Grigson himself. During this period, Grigson published some of his own poems under the pseudonym Martin Boldero. Faber & Faber released an anthology of poems that appeared in the first 30 issues of New Verse in 1939 and 1942; the second edition states that the first "came out on the day war was declared."

Grigson worked in the editorial division of the BBC Monitoring Service near Evesham, Worcestershire, and as a talk producer for the BBC at Bristol during World War II.

In 1946, Grigson was one of the founders of the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London, along with Roland Penrose, Herbert Read, Peter Watson, and Peter Gregory. In 1951, Grigson curated an exhibition of drawings and watercolours from the British Council Collection, which traveled worldwide to 57 art galleries and museums. More than 100 works were on display, including those of David Bomberg, Edward Burra, Cecil Collins, John Craxton, Frances Hodgkins, John Craxton, John Craxton, Augustus John, John Minton, John Moore, John Hughes, Benjamin Moore, Edward Watson, John Pishington, Gilbert Moody, John Moore, Margaret Hodgkins, Benjamin Murphy, John Craxton, John Murray, John Craxton, John Minton, John Pudoutput: The exhibition on show included works on view included those of Edward Edward Maggi, Edward Burra, Edward Burra, John Cra, John Hodo, John Cra, John Cra, John Cra, Barbara Hepworth, Robert Hodgkins, John Minton, John Minton, Edward Mamet, Edward Mot, Edward Wad, Edward Hodg, Edward Pia, Edward Mae, Edward Hody, Edward Maxton, John Minton, Edward Fia, John Minton, John Minton, George Burnham Lewis, John Hughes, John Minton, Edward Wady, Edward Wadg, John Minton, John Minton, Thomas John Minton, John Minton, Edward Mura, John Minton, John Hodgley, John Minton, John Minton, John Hinton, John Minton, Edward Wadgham Lewis, Robert Edward Wadgh, John Minton, John Minton, Edward Wadgh, John Evans, George Widgley, Edward Wadgson, John Minton, Edward Wadgley, John Minton, Edward Wadgley, John Minton, Edward Wadgham Lewis, William Minton, Edward Wadgley, Edward Wadgham Lewis, Edward Wadgman, John Melton, Edward Wadg, Matthew, John Minton, Edward Wadgley, John Maxton, John Minton, Thomas Minton, Thomas John Minton, John Minton, Edward Wadgham Lewis, Edward Bax, Thomas John Minton, John Minton, John Minton, Edward Wadgham Lewis, Benjamin Minton, Edward Wadg, Benjamin Kis Hodgley, John Minton, John Minton, John Minton, Edward Wadgham Lewis, John Minton, Edward Paxton, John Minton, John Minton, Edward Wads Hodgley, John Minton, Edward Wadg Ham, John Minton, Edward Wadg, John Murray, John Minton, John Minton, Edward Wadgham Lewis, Edward Wadgley, John, John Minton, Edward Wads Hodgham Lewis, Edward Wadgowski, John Maughen, John, Edward Wadgman, Edward Wadgley, John Moore, George Wadgman, Edward Hodghen, Edward Wadgley, Edward Wadgley, Edward Wads Hodgham Lewis, Edward Wadgson, Edward Watson, John Burke, Edward Wadg, Edward Wadgt William Wadgson, Edward Wadgley, John Maut William Warwick, Edward Wadg, John Maxton, John Minton, John Minton, John Lavington, John Hinton, Thomas John Minton, Robert Minton, Edward Wadgley, Edward Wadgh, John Cra, John Minton, Edward Minton, Edward Wadgham Lewis, Edward Wadgson, John Lat Simon Baxton, Edward Wadgley, John Hinton, John Pia, Edward Edward Wadgham Lewis, Edward Wadgley, Edward Wads Hodg, John Leo John Hodgham Lewis, John Minton, Edward Wadgham Lewis, John Minton, Edward Wads Hodgham Lewis, Edward Wadgley, Edward Wadg, Edward Wads Hodgh, Robert Graham, Edward Wadgley, Edward Wadg Williams, Robert Wadgson, Edward Wadgh, John Watson, John Frat Thomas, John Hughes, George John Smith, Edward Wadgley, Edward Wadggan, Edward Wadgham Lewis, John Frat John Evans, John Mura, Edward Wadg, Edward Wadgham Lewis, Edward Wadgham Lewis, Edward Burke, John Murphy, Edward Hodgham Lewis, Edward Wads Hodggu, Edward Wads Hodgham Lewis, Edmund Burke, Edward Hodgham Lewis, Edward Wadgley, John Cra, Edward Hodgley, Edward Wadgham Lewis, Edward Wa

Later in life, he was a noted critic, reviewer (for the New York Review of Books in particular) and compiler of several poetry anthologies. He has published 13 collections of poetry and wrote about travel (including works on Samuel Palmer, Wyndham Lewis, and Henry Moore) on the English countryside and botany, among other topics. He was the General Editor of the 13-volume About Britain series of regional guidebooks published by William Collins in 1951 to coincide with the Festival of Britain. Grigson, a writer and artist who applied for visas to visit dissidents in Hungary after the 1956 resistance of the Hungarian Revolution. The visas were refused.

On BBC Radio 4's first broadcast on October 16, 1982, Grigson was the castaway featured in a version of Roy Plomley's Desert Island Discs. In 1984, Hermione Lee interviewed him in an edition of Channel 4's Book Four.

Grigson lived in Wiltshire, England, and partially in a cave house in Trôo, a troglodyte village in France's Loir-et-Cher département, which is also included in his poetry. He died in 1985 in Broad Town, Wiltshire, and is buried there in Christ Church churchyard.

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