“Ted who?” you might ask. I did 15 years ago when the poet Roy Kelly gave me a copy of Walker’s first collection. When Walker died in 2004, his Guardian obituarist remarked that, “It is not surprising that his most substantial works are his autobiographical volumes.” His Times obituarist similarly opined that, “He will perhaps be best remembered for his moving autobiographical volume The Last of England.” His prose earned him (jointly) the JR Ac…
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