Vincent Buckley

Vincent Buckley was born on 8 July 1925 at Romsey, in Victoria, into a family of Irish descent. He joined the air force at the end of 1943 and was discharged in 1945. He studied at the University of Melbourne and then at Cambridge, taught English at Melbourne from 1951, and was awarded a personal chair of poetry there in 1967. He edited the journal Prospect from 1958 to 1964 and the poetry pages of the Bulletin from 1961 to 1963, stayed in Ireland between 1967 and 1979, and died in Melbourne on 12 November 1988.

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