Poet, playwright, translator, editor and freelance broadcaster Patric Thomas Dickinson was born on 26 December 1914. He studied at St. Catherine's College, Cambridge. Between 1936 and 1939 he was a schoolmaster, and he was associated with the 1938 Cambridge University Footlights Dramatic Club production Pure and simple . In the first year of the war, 1939-1940 he served with the Artists' Rifles before working with the BBC. In 1973 he received the Cholmondeley Award alongside Philip Larkin. His published work includes Soldiers' verse (1945), Theseus and the Minotaur, and poems (1946), The sailing race and other poems (1952), Aristophanes against war: The Acharnians, The peace, Lysistrata (1957), The world I see (1960), More than time (1970), and A rift in time: poems (1982). Latterly he lived in Rye, East Sussex. Patric Thomas Dickinson died on 28 January 1994.
From the guide to the Correspondence of Patric Thomas Dickinson (1914-1994), 1978-1979, (Edinburgh University Library)
