Scupham, John Peter, 1933-2022 (poet)
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1933 - 2022
Biography
John Peter Scupham was born in Liverpool on 24 February 1933, the son of John Scupham (1904-1990), Controller of Educational Broadcasting at the B.B.C., and his wife Dorothy Lacey, née Clark (1904-1987). He was educated at The Perse School and Emmanuel College, Cambridge (B.A. 1957). He performed National Service in the Royal Army Ordnance Corps, 1952-1954, and was recalled during the Suez Crisis of 1956. He was later Head of English at St Christopher School, Letchworth, and proprietor of the Mandeville Press in Hitchin. He is the author of numerous books of poetry, including a Collected Poems (Manchester: Carcanet Press, 2002).
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Peter Scupham: correspondence and papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9941
Scope and Contents
[Boxes 1-4]: Correspondence between Peter Scupham and Carola Braunholtz; school reports of Peter Scupham; unpublished poems by Peter Scupham; letters and poems sent to Peter Scupham by John Hadwen; letters from Peter Scupham to John Hadwen; settings by John Hopkins of poems by Peter Scupham; interviews and comments on poems by Scupham, by Anthony Glover; other early (1950s) letters to Peter Scupham from National Servicemen; correspondence respecting Scupham's poems 'A masculine pastoral';...
Dates:
1785-2012 (bulk 1950s - 2010s)
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Cambridge University Library
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