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WILLIAM OXLEY Poet. William Oxley was born in 1939 Manchester, England. He was educated at Manchester College of Commerce and in 1964 he qualified as a Chartered Accountant and moved to London. In 1976 he moved again to Brixham, South Devon and gave up the profession to write full time. He is the author of 34 volumes and pamphlets of poetry, 5 volumes of philosophical musings and an autobiography. He founded the Vitalist Movement of poets in the early 70s and co-founded the Torbay Festival of Poetry in 2001.

See: OXLEY, William:  Dictionary of International Biography, Ely UK 2010.

MORWALD, Eva: The Role of Nature in William Oxley's Poetry. Universitat Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria 1989.

JEFFERY, Lucy: A Study of William Oxley 1939 --. Thesis submitted to the University of Swansea in fulfilment of MA in Arts. Swansea University, 2013