Papers of John Monks concerning the poet James Farrar 2008-2009
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Farrar, James, 1923-1944
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James Farrar (1923-1944), poet and airman, was born on 5 October 1923 at Woodford in Essex, the second son of a father who had served in the Royal Flying Corps in the First World War. He matriculated at fourteen years of age, and soon after began to write poetry and prose. Despite his youth, his work was of an exceptional maturity and skill. Tragically, he was killed in a RAF mosquito aircraft trying to destroy a V1 flying bomb at the end of July 1944. He was twenty years of age. His work was la...
Monks, John, 1945-
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John Monks, born 24 May 1945, at Sheffield, attended Bishop Vesey's Grammar School, Sutton Coldfield, and King Henry VIII School, Coventry, before becoming a journalist. He worked in Yorkshire and the West Country before leaving newspapers for a brief spell on local radio. For 20 years he worked for the public service trade union NALGO (later UNISON) and was Director of Communications for UNISON when he took early retirement. He did a Ph.D. at Goldsmiths College, University of London, on the poe...
