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John Fairfax was an English poet, editor and co-founder, with John Moat, of the Arvon Foundation in 1968. Nephew of George and Kit Barker. Educated at Plymouth College, he skipped university in favour of his uncle's "collection of misfits" in Zennor, near St Ives in Cornwall. John avoided the poetry scene, quietly producing his own work.

John Fairfax
Born	(1930-11-09)9 November 1930 Devon
Died	14 January 2009(2009-01-14) (aged 78) Reading, Berkshire
Occupation	Poet
Nationality	English

Fairfax died in Reading on 14 January 2009.

Poetry collections

• Frontier of Going (1969)
• Adrift on the Star-brow of Taliesin (1974)
• Bone Harvest Done (1980)

External links

• Obituary, The Guardian
• Obituary, The Independent

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