David Gill obituary

My father, David Gill, who has died aged 82, was a poet, teacher and lifelong activist for peace and justice.

His first post was at Bedales, the progressive boarding school in Hampshire, where he was taken on to teach German and English in 1960. After two happy years, he left to travel to Africa, where he spent two years teaching at Nyakasura boys’ school near Fort Portal, Uganda. His experiences there informed his first published book of poetry, Men Without Evenings (1966); a second collection, The Pagoda (1969) followed, in the Phoenix Living Poets series.