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Milner Place is an English writer most well known for his poetry. He was born on January 25th, 1930 in Thirsk, North Yorkshire to Dorothy F. Place and Tom Place. He had three siblings, Ullin, Dorothy and David. His brother Ullin Place is well known for his work on consciousness as a process of the brain, His sister Dorothy Smith is a Canadian sociologist who founded the sociological sub-disciplines of feminist Standpoint theory and Institutional Ethnography.

Life

Early in his life he worked as a forester. From 1948 to 1950 he served in the military, he then studied briefly at an agricultural college, worked as a bartender and managed the family farm. Place lived much of his life on the sea. In 1953 he sailed to South Africa where he worked in a copper mine. In 1955 he returned to England and worked as a journalist. In 1958 he sailed to New York and from 1958 to 1961 lived in the Bahamas.

In 1961, he bought his first ship and sailed it through Miami and England to Mallorca. During the Algerian War, he was a smuggler. The years 1962 and 1963 he spent in Bilbao and Madrid. In 1965 he captained a sailing ship built in the Netherlands to Lisbon. In the following years he drove several ocean races with Juan Carlos the future King of Spain. In 1966 in Denmark he turned a barge into a yacht and in 1967 and 1968 he ran a yacht charter in Malta for wedding couples and regularly sailed the route via Lampedusa and Tunisia. In 1969 he was a consultant for Forte International Hotels in Sardinia and Greece before he organized a fishing fleet in Ecuador. Shortly thereafter, he fled to Peru on charges of alleged piracy. He then worked for the Manu River Project and for similar projects in Brazil and Panama. In 1971 he returned to England before working for time in the Canary Islands as a photographer. In 1973 he traveled to Mexico to write an ultimately unpublished novel. While struggling with the novel he took up poetry as a relief from working on the novel. In 1976 he moved - now with his partner Dorothy and the stepson Paul - to Mallorca.

Milner Place was an editor for Poetry Circle, a forum for contemporary poetry in the United States.

Works

He wrote his first poems in Mallorca in Spanish. After his settlement in Huddersfield / UK in 1987, he began to write poetry in English.

En Busca de mi Alma, published in Spanish 1977

In a rare time of rain, Chatto & Windus

The confusion of the Anglers, Wide Skirt Press

Where smoke is, Wide Skirt Press

Piltdown Man & Bat Woman, Spout publications

The City of Flowers, Spout publications

Caminante, Wrecking Ball Press

Certain matters, Lapwing Publications, Belfast

Odersfelt, Flux Gallery Press

Naked Invitation, Lapwing Publications, Belfast

The man who had forgotten the name of trees, moloko print 2013, preface by Todd Moore, with drawings by Harald Häuser

Other

He also wrote plays for BBC Radio 3 and 4 and was featured in the show Bookworm in the BBC1 television.

Sources

• Wrecking Ball Press, accessed on August 24, 2013.
• milnerplace.electricmuseum.de, accessed on August 24, 2013.

Category:1930 births Category:Living people Category:English Poets Category:English Writers Category:Writers Category:Literature (English) Category:Literature (20th century) Category:Poetry Category:Briton Category:Men