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Christopher Logue, CBE (23 November 1926 – 2 December 2011) was an English poet associated with the British Poetry Revival, and a pacifist.
Born in England, poet and actor Christopher Logue, a pacifist, served as a private in the Black Watch and was imprisoned twice, once for his pacificism and once, as he told the Guardian, for “nastily boasting that I would sell documents to a supposed enemy. There was no substance to it.”.
Christopher Logue was a poet, screenwriter, actor and playwright. Born in Portsmouth in 1926 he served briefly in the Black Watch during and immediately after the Second World War, before spending sixteen months in a military prison.
Christopher Logue (born November 23, 1926, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England—died December 2, 2011, London) was an English poet, playwright, journalist, and actor, who was one of the leaders in the movement to bring poetry closer to the popular experience.
Christopher Logue. , The Art of Poetry No. 66. Interviewed by Shusha Guppy. Issue 127, Summer 1993. War Music, Christopher Logue’s adaptation of books sixteen to nineteen of Homer’s Iliad, was published in 1987 and immediately hailed as a masterpiece on both sides of the Atlantic. It was the culmination of a long, sustained effort that ...
Christopher Logue (1926 – 2011) spent over forty years working on his contemporary version of Homer’s Iliad. Begun in 1959 the project expanded into five full-length collections, known collectively as War Music.
Christopher Logue was born in 1926 in Hampshire, and was educated in Bath. He was associated with the British Poetry Revival, and also wrote for theatre and screen, including the screenplays Savage Messiah and The End of Arthur's Marriage .
Dec 10, 2011 · Mr. Logue, whose life was a fittingly picaresque epic that also included being imprisoned in a Crusader castle, writing a pornographic novel, acting in films by the director Ken Russell and...
Christopher Logue. 1926 –. 2011. Read poems by this poet. Christopher Logue was born in Hampshire, England, on November 23, 1926. He is the author of several collections of poetry, including The Husbands: An Account of Books 3 and 4 of Homer's Iliad (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1995), Kings: An Account of Books 1 and 2 of Homer's Iliad (1991 ...
Christopher Logue, the British poet best known for his modernist re-working of Homer's Illiad, died at home in London on December 2nd. He was 85. Logue grew up in Portsmouth, Hampshire.
