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Barry Tebb


Barry Tebb is an English poet, publisher and author. He was born in Leeds, West Yorkshire in 1942.

Tebbs studied English at the Leeds Training College 1961-1964 and while there ... "read widely, Proust, Firbank, Dickens, Ginsberg, Sartre, Kierkegaard, and of course, The New Poetry (Plath, Lowell and Berryman)" He and taught at Wyther Park Primary School 1964-67. At the University of Leeds he mixed with Gregory Fellows in Poetry including Martin Bell, Peter Redgrove, Jon Silkin and David Wright. The Gregory fellowship awards were set up by Eric Craven Gregory to encourage young artists.

His poetry was being printed in Peace News and The Poetry Review and he was first published by Alan Tarling's 'Poet and Printer Press' ( -1996) in the sixties'. His first collection was praised by John Carey in the New Statesman and his work was included in the Penguin anthology Children of Albion: Poetry of the Underground in Britain.

After a twenty-five year (1970-1995) hiatus he began to write again. Appalled by the state of poetry publishing he founded Sixties Press in 1993 which has published poetry and books by a number of authors including Daisy Abey and Brenda Williams, both his wives. A review of Tebbs work in Poetry Magazines included the following, "Tebb's poetry plays on tensions implicit in the public and the private, the spoken and unspoken, the formal and the free. He is obviously an accomplished poet with a great deal to say."

A collection of his work including manuscripts, typescript papers, books and pamphlets (1993-2003) is held in the Special Collections in the Leeds University Library.

His parents were working class and he enjoyed growing up in Leeds, and the sense of community among the people, of everyone looking out for each other. Tebb was also a passionate campaigner with Brenda Williams for better mental health services. He published several books on the subject. He also has a Mental Health Blog where he pursues the needs of patient and carers of which he had personal experience.


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