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Peter Russell (1921 - 2003)

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  • Peter Russell, born in Bristol in 1921, was editor of the influential magazine Nine (1945–56). He left England in the early 1960s, and lived and taught in Germany, the USA, Canada, Iran and Italy, which was his main home since 1964. His many books include An Examination of Ezra Pound (ed., 1950) and All for the Wolves, his Selected Poems 1947–1975, published by Anvil in 1984. He died in 2003.

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