Harry Kemp (UK poet)

Harry Vincent Kemp (11 December 1911 - 2 September 1994) was an English poet who taught mathematics for a living.

Life
Kemp was born in southern England, the son of an engineer in the Far East. He was educated at Stowe and then read mathematics at Clare College, Cambridge

, where he read Mathematics before supporting his poetic vocation by working as a part-time schoolmaster. In the Thirties, when he had a brief flirtation with Communism, he married Alix Eierman, the refugee daughter of a German-Jewish industrialist. While Alix applied her practical nature to starting a cheese-importing business, which failed, Kemp renounced his former political views in The Left Heresy (1939), a book on which he had the daily critical assistance of Laura Riding, who joined him as co-author on the title-page.