Meeting Nicolas McDowall in 1967 led to 20 years of creative collaboration and 54 of close friendship. For secondary school English departments we worked together on anthologies of contemporary poetry, characterised by the striking juxtaposition of text and monochrome photographs.
In later years it was a joy to stay with Nicolas and his wife, Frances, in their Wye Valley home. They encouraged my wife and me to translate Lucian Blaga’s wonderful Poems of Light from the Romanian, and published an Old Stile Press edition with powerful images by the artist Sara Philpott.
