Harold Hikins. Courtesy Twitter.
Harold Raymond Hikins (1919-2003) was an English poet, editor, publisher, and librarian.
Life[]
Hikins was the librarian at Spellow Library, Liverpool, England. He began working as a librarian straight from school, and worked his way up to head librarian of Liverpoool.
After the death by suicide of his 1st wife, he married poet Sylvia Rice-Smith, with whom he ran Toulouse Press, and collaborated on various poetry and avant-garde art works. The cover of their earliest collaborative work, A Black Look on the Bright Side, had a photograph of them in a graveyard. They posed nude for the cover of their 2nd, Harold and Sylvia's Book of Revelations.[1]
Hikins also organized a organized an annual week-long poetry festival in Liverpool.[2]
In his late 70s, he led a successful 4-year campaign (1994-1998) to stop Liverpool City Council from selling Grove Mount Fields, the playing fields adjacent to Penny Lane, to developers.[3]
He died in Merseyside in 2003.[4]
Publications[]
Poetry[]
- A Black Look on the Bright Side (with Sylvia Hikins). Liverpool: Toulouse Press, 1972.
- Harold and Sylvia's Book of Revelations (with Sylvia Hikins). Liverpool: Toulouse Press, 1974.
Non-fiction[]
- The Liverpool General Transport Strike, 1911. Toulouse Press, 1980.
Edited[]
- Building the Union: Studies on the growth of the workers' movement, Merseyside, 1756-1967. Liverpool: Toulouse Press, for Liverpool Trades Council, 1973.
- Statistics of Vauxhall Ward, Liverpool: The condition of the working class in Liverpool in 1842 (compiled with Jack Finch). Liverpool: Toulouse Press, 1986.
Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.[5]
See also[]
References[]
- ↑ Stephen Wade, Gladsongs and Gatherings: Poetry and its social context in Liverpool since the 1960s (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2001), 148 Google Books, Web, Jan. 25, 2017.
- ↑ "Yorkshire poets The blood and thunder ballads roar", Hurriyet Daily News, July 8, 1996. Web, Jan. 23, 2017.
- ↑ Penny Lane forever, BBC News, July 18, 1998. Web, Jan. 27, 2017.
- ↑ All Birth, Marriage & Death, including Parish results for Hikins, Ancestry.co.uk. Web, July 3, 2020.
- ↑ Search results = au:Harold R Hikins, WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, Jan. 23, 2017.
External Links[]
- Books
- Harold R Hikins at Amazon.com
- About
- Poetry listings for the U.K.
- Harold Raymond Hikins at Facebook
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