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Derek Stanley Savage (6 March 1917 - 14 October 2007), pacifist poet and critic, usually published as "D.S.Savage". He was General Secretary of the Anglican Pacifist Fellowship.

Life
Derek Savage was born in Essex and brought up in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire. He went to Hertford Grammar School and Latymer School, Edmonton and then a commercial college. He became a convinced Christian Pacifist.

In 1938, he married Constance Kiernan. They had five children.

A Tribunal accepted his conscientious objection to conscription.

In 1947, the family moved to Cornwall, initially to a delapidated cottage in the Heligan Woods and then into the village of Megavissey. He died 14 October 2007, aged 90.

Writing and literary activities
According to Trevor Tolley, Derek Savage was associated with the following "leftist" writers in the 1940s: George Woodcock, Alex Comfort, J F Hendry, Norman McCaig, Derek Stanford. In Cornwall, his associates included Louis Adeane, Dick Kitto, Mary Lee Settle, W S Graham, Nessie Dunsmuir, Frank Baker, Lionel Miskin and Bernie Moss.

He contributed many articles, reviews and poems to magazines such as Twentieth Century Verse, Life and letters today and The Phoenix, of which he became European Editor, in succession to Henry Miller. From Megvissey, he contributed many ook reveiews ti The Spectator and Time and Tide.

His 1944 book, The Personal Principle: Studies in modern poetry, gave his strong views on contemporary poetry.

His controversial critical book The Withered Branch (1950), attacked the Twentieth Century novels of Ernest Hemingway, E M Forster, Virginia Woolf, Margaid Evans, Aldous Huxley and James Joyce.

Books

 * A Time to mourn. Poems, 1934-1943. Routledge (New Poets series. no. 12). 1943
 * The Autumn World. [Poems. With a portrait.] Fortune Press, 1939
 * Don Quixote, and other poems. London, Right review, 1939.
 * The Personal Principle: Studies in modern poetry, Routledge: London, 1944.
 * Hamlet & the Pirates: An exercise in literary detection, London,  Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1950
 * The Withered Branch: Six studies in the modern novel. Eyre & Spottiswoode: London, 1950.
 * The cottager’s companion, Peter Davies, 1975. ISBN 0432141103 and paperback edition, Mayflower, 1980. 0583128505
 * And also much cattle : scenario for four voices, London Brentham Press, 1975. ISBN 0950345954 and, 1993 Harleston : Brynmill Press. ISBN 0907839576
 * Winter offering : selected poems 1934-1953, Gringley-on-the-Hill, S. Yorks. : Brynmill, c1990. ISBN 0907839517

Contributions to books and magazines
This section is incomplete
 * Now Magazine, Autumn 1940 - Tribunal Statement
 * "Testament of a Conscientious Objector". In: Simmons (Clifford) The Objectors, Isle of Man, Times Press, 1965. pp. 82-122.

Lyrics of musical works by John Douglas Turner

 * Dirtying My Thing, c.1970.
 * Your Mother Thinks I’m a Hoodlum, c1970