(1933- ) Jamaica-born writer, poet, art curator/critic and editor, in the UK from 1946, whose most notable genre contribution is his compilation of the important early sf Poetry anthology Holding Your Eight Hands: An Anthology of Science Fiction Verse (anth 1969). Contributors included Brian Aldiss, John Brunner, Robert Conquest, Thomas M Disch, John Fairfax, C S Lewis, H P Lovecraft, Lucie-Smith himself, George MacBeth, Peter Redgrove, John Sladek and D M Thomas. [DRL]
John Edward McKenzie Lucie-Smith
born Kingston, Jamaica: 27 February 1933
died
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