Andrew Thomas Knights Crozier (26 July 1943 – 3 April 2008) was a poet associated with the British Poetry Revival.
Life
Crozier was educated at Dulwich College, and later Christ's College, Cambridge. His 1976 book Pleats won the Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize, awarded jointly that year with Lee Harwood. He was co-editor of the important Revival magazine The English Intelligencer and for many years ran Ferry Press, an independent poetry publisher that issued books by Anthony Barnett, David Chaloner, Douglas Oliver, J. H. Prynne, Peter Riley, and others. With Tim Longville he edited the influential anthology A Various Art. He also edited the poems of Carl Rakosi and John Rodker. His collected poems, All Where Each Is was published in 1985. Crozier was Professor of Prose at the University of Sussex, where his research interests were listed as English and American poetry and poetics, with special reference to the romantic and modern periods.
Andrew Crozier died from a brain tumour on 3 April 2008.
Bibliography
Loved Litter of Time Spent, Buffalo, NY: Sum Books, 1967
Train Rides, Pampisford, UK: R Books, 1968
Walking on Grass, London: Ferry Press, 1969
In One Side & Out the Other (with John James & Tom Phillips), London: Ferry Press, 1970 Neglected Information, Sidcup, UK: Blacksuede Boot Press, 1972 The Veil Poem, Providence, RI: Burning Deck, 1974 Printed Circuit, Cambridge, UK: Street Editions, 1974 Seven Contemporary Sun Dials (with Ian Potts), Brighton, UK: Brighton Festival, 1975 Pleats, Bishops Stortford, UK: Great Works Editions, 1975 Residing, Belper, UK: Aggie Weston's, 1976 Duets, Guildford, UK: Circle Press, 1976 High Zero, Cambridge, UK: Street Editions, 1978 Were There, London: Many Press, 1978 Utamaro Variations (with Ian Tyson), London: Tetrad, 1982 All Where Each Is, London: Allardyce, Barnett, 1985 A Various Art (co-edited with Tim Longville), Manchester, UK: Carcanet, 1987 Star Ground, Lewes, UK: Silver Hounds, 2008 "Free Verse" as Formal Restraint, Bristol: Shearsman, 2015
References
External links
Obituary: Independent
The English Intelligencer Archive
British Poetry at Y2K
Andrew Crozier 1943-2008 A "cyber-tombeau" at Silliman's Blog by poet Ron Silliman includes comments, tributes, and links The Death of Andrew Crozier obituary at the EYEWEAR website Records of Andrew Crozier are held by Simon Fraser University's Special Collections and Rare Books