Harold Massingham

Harold W. Massingham (25 October 1932 Mexborough—13 March 2011) was an English poet.

For the British writer on ruralism and poet Harold John Massingham (1888–1952), see H. J. Massingham.

Life

He was the son of H. W. Massingham (a collier from Mexborough). He attended the same Mexborough Grammar School as the Yorkshire poet and Poet Laureate Ted Hughes but in a class two years below. He taught at the University of Manchester; his students included Steven Waling, and Trevor Griffiths.[1]

Harold Massingham lived in Mexborough through his childhood, and then Manchester from his university days, until moving with his wife Pat to Spain in the 1990s. He published three volumes of poetry in 1965, 1972 and 1992.[2]

His work was published in The New Yorker, and Alhambra Poetry Calendar.

Under the pseudonym ‘Mass’, he set crosswords for national newspapers and magazines for more than 30 years.[3] He also compiled chess puzzles.[4]

Awards

Work

Poetry broadsheets
  • Doomsday
  • The magician, Phoenix Pamphlet Poets Press, 1969
  • Seafarer
  • Wanderer
  • The Magician's Attic

Poetry books
  • Black Bull Guarding Apples. London: Longmans. 1965. [5]
  • Frost Gods, Macmillan, 1972
  • Sonatas & Dreams, Littlewood Arc, 1992

Anthology
  • John Matthews, ed. (Oct 1988). "The Finding of Merlin". An Arthurian Reader. Aquarian Press. ISBN 0-85030-778-3.
  • "Tree-dream". The Poetry Book Society Anthology 1989-90. Hutchinson. October 1989. ISBN 978-0-09-173992-8.
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References
  1. Mike Poole & John Wyver, Powerplays: Trevor Griffiths in Television, 1984, London: BFI Publishing, p.12
  2. Ian McMillan, Vernon Scannell, Yorkshire Post, 23 November 2007
  3. Jonathan Crowther (2006) A-Z of Crosswords, Collins ISBN 978-0-00-722923-9, ISBN 0-00-722923-2
  5. Chris Jones, Strange likeness: the use of Old English in twentieth-century poetry, Oxford University Press, 2006
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