Terence Tiller

Terence Rogers Tiller (19 September 1916 – 24 December 1987) was an English poet and radio producer.

Early life

Tiller was born in Truro, Cornwall. He studied history at Jesus College, Cambridge, where he graduated with a starred first-class BA degree in 1937 and won the Chancellor's Medal for English Verse.[1] He then lectured in medieval history at Cambridge from 1937 to 1939. During World War II he taught English literature at the University of Cairo.[2]

BBC

In 1946 he joined the BBC Features Department; and was a known Fitzrovian. In 1955 he was producer of the first BBC radio adaptation of Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings (which did not please the author). He later brought work by Mervyn Peake to the airwaves. In 1964 he moved to the Drama Department; he has written and produced radio scripts on a wide range of subjects, but mainly on history, literature and mythology. His work on the weekly chess programme on the Third Programme led to his book Chess Treasury of the Air.[3]

Bibliography
Edited works and translations
  • The Vision of Piers Plowman; translated from Middle English into Modern English verse
  • A translation of Dante
  • Chess Treasury of the Air (Penguin Handbooks; PH124; 1966) for Penguin, which he edited
  • New Poems 1960, edited with Anthony Cronin and Jon Silkin
  • John Gower Confessio Amantis: 'The Lover's Shrift'; translated from Middle English into Modern English verse. (Penguin Classics; L128.)Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1965
  • Collected Poems (London: Eyewear Publishing, 2016)[4]
Original poetry

As a poet, he was published by Hogarth Press: Poems (1941); The Inward Animal (1943); Reading a Medal, and other poems (1957) as well as "Unarm, Eros". Notes for a Myth (1968)[5] and That Singing Mesh, and other poems (1979)[6]were published by Chatto and Windus in the Phoenix Living Poets series.

References
  1. 'University News', Times, 21 June 1937, p. 20.
  2. Tiller, Terence (1966) Chess Treasury of the Air. Harmondsworth: Penguin; p. 1
  3. Tiller, Terence (1966) Chess Treasury of the Air. Harmondsworth: Penguin; p. 1
  4. https://store.eyewearpublishing.com/products/the-collected-poems-of-terence-tiller
  5. Tiller, T. (1968) Notes for a Myth Chatto & Windus
  6. Tiller, T. (1979) That Singing Mesh Chatto & Windus


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