Fairfax, John

John Fairfax was a contemporary of Reginald Pond who wrote a biography of the Antarctic explorer Robert Falcon Scott in the 1960s

From the guide to the John Fairfax collection, 1966, (Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge)

Epithet: Captain; of Add MS 29148

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Epithet: of Sloane MS 1911

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John Fairfax (1930- ) is a writer educated in Devon who has retained strong links with the county throughout his writing career. Nephew of George Barker, he has a particular interest in installation art and poetry. Together with his life-long friend and fellow poet John Moat, he is also the co-founder of the Arvon Foundation. The first week-long creative writing course was held for Devon schoolchildren in 1968, with Ted Hughes (Poet Laureate) attending as guest reader. The Foundation now runs residential creative writing courses at four centres throughout the United Kingdom.

Publications of John Fairfax include: The way to write: a complete guide to the basic skills of good writing (co-written with John Moat, and with a foreword by Ted Hughes) (1981), Creative Writing (1989), Frontier of going: an anthology of space poetry (selected and with an introduction by John Fairfax) (1969), Stop and listen: an anthology of thirteen living poets (compiled by John Fairfax) (1969), The fifth horseman of the apocalypse (1969), One hundred poems (1992), Bone harvest done poems (1980), Horizons (ed.) (1971), This I say: twelve poems (1966), Wild Children (1985) and Zuihitsu poetic journal and jottings (1996).

From the guide to the Papers of John Fairfax, 1964-1995, (University of Exeter)

John Fairfax (1930- ) is a writer educated in Devon who has retained strong links with the county throughout his writing career. Nephew of George Barker, he has a particular interest in installation art and poetry. Publications of John Fairfax include: The way to write: a complete guide to the basic skills of good writing (co-written with John Moat, and with a foreword by Ted Hughes) (1981), Creative Writing (1989), Frontier of going: an anthology of space poetry (selected and with an introduction by John Fairfax) (1969), Stop and listen: an anthology of thirteen living poets (compiled by John Fairfax) (1969), The fifth horseman of the apocalypse (1969), One hundred poems (1992), Bone harvest done poems (1980), Horizons (ed.) (1971), This I say: twelve poems (1966), Wild Children (1985) and Zuihitsu poetic journal and jottings (1996).

charity, running residential creative writing courses for songwriters, poets, novelists, script and screenwriters, playwrights and journalists at four centres throughout the United Kingdom.

From the guide to the Papers of John Fairfax relating to the establishment of the Arvon Foundation, c 1971-c 1991, (University of Exeter)