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Apr 21, 1915 Died on 19 Apr 1985 (aged 69)
Australian poet
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About John Manifold
- John Streeter Manifold (21 April 1915 – 19 April 1985) was an Australian poet and critic.
- He was born in Melbourne, into a well known Camperdown family.
- He was educated at Geelong Grammar School, and read modern languages at Jesus College, Cambridge.
- While in Cambridge he joined the Communist Party of Great Britain.
- He was involved in an attempt to create a successor (Poetry and the People) to Left Review, when the latter folded in 1938. He then worked in Germany, in publishing.
- During World War II he served in intelligence in the British Army, in the Middle East, Africa and France.
- He was a published war poet; Trident, with Hubert Nicholson and David Martin, was published by Randall Swingler's Fore Publications in 1944. In 1949 he returned to Australia, settling in Brisbane.
- He was a founder in 1950 of the Realist Writers Group.
- He then worked and published mostly on Australian songs and music, reciting ballads at arts festivals.
- In the 1984 Australia Day Honours he was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for "service to literature as a poet and musician".
- He died in Brisbane.
