Quiddities:

Joseph Braddock, who was born in 1902 and educated at the New Beacon, Sevenoaks, Uppingham School and St. John's College, Cambridge, has worked as a freelance teacher and writer. During the Second World War he taught English to Free Polish Airforce personnel for the British Council. He also worked as Assistant Secretary of The Lord Mayor's Air-raid Distress Fund. His published work includes several prose books on Greece, a verse play, and several collections of poetry. Quiddities: Poems New & Selected contains 15 new poems plus poems from three earlier collections: The Pilgrim Shadow (Duckworth, 1928), Sark & Other Poems (Basil Blackwell, 1934), and No Stranger Than A Flower: Poems 1935-1960). Joseph Braddock is a poet of considerable originality of vision who writes in the central tradition of English Poetry.