My friend William Oxley, who has died aged 80, was a prolific poet who, in addition to 31 poetry publications, produced numerous books of literary criticism, philosophy, fiction, plays and biography.
William’s poems appeared in numerous newspapers and journals, including the New York Times, the Scotsman, the Spectator and the Observer. His first volume of poems, The Dark Structures, was published in 1967 and his last, Walking Sequence and Other Poems, in 2015. The British Library acquired his poetic archive in 2014.
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