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A.S.J. Tessimond [1902-1962] ENG
Ranked #233 in the top 380 poets

Arthur Seymour John Tessimond was born in Birkenhead. He was an only child. He was educated at Charterhouse but ran away to London at the age of 16, only to return home two weeks later. He went to Liverpool University and then moved to London where he worked in bookshops and then as an advertising copywriter. He went into hiding during World War II, as he considered he would not be much good as a soldier. As it happened, he later discovered he was unfit to fight anyway.     He was an eccentric with depressive tendencies whose inheritance went either on night-life or on psychoanalysts. He was given electric shock treatment and this may have contributed to the brain hae

Vernacular, Bipolar disorder

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The Man In The Bowler Hat
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6
O
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3
Empty Room
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2
Houses
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2
Sea
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2
Any Man Speaks
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1
Bells, Pool And Sleep
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1
Betrayal
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1
Birch Tree
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1
Black On Black
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1
Cats
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1
Cats 1
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1
Chaplin
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1
Cinema Screen
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1
Cocoon For A Skeleton
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1
Discovery
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1
Don Juan
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1
Earthfast
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1
Epilogue
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1
Epitaph For Our Children
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1
Epitaph On A Disturber Of His Times
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1
Flight Of Stairs
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1
June Sick Room
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1
Last Word To Childhood
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1
Meeting
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1
Music
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1
Never
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1
Night Piece
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1
Nursery Rhyme For A Twenty-First
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1
One Almost Might
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1
Polyphony In A Cathedral
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1
Quickstep
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1
Seaport
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1
Attack On The Ad-Man
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0
Black Morning Lovesong
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0
Day Dream
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0
Not Love Perhaps
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0
Symphony In Red
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0
The British
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0
The Children Look At The Parents
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0
To Be Blind
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0
Tube Station
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0
Unlyric Love Song
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0
Wet City Night
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