Welsh poet, born in Bargoed, Glamorgan; he spent most of his childhood in Cardiff. He worked for the BBC from 1943 to 1957 and was subsequently a press assistant at the Indonesian Embassy.

Collected Poems 1958–1978 appeared in 1978. The social-realist idiom characteristic of much of his verse is frequently enhanced by richly elegiac effects. His angry indignation at economic and environmental decay in South Wales is recurrently tinged with mordant comedy through his use of ironic understatement. He also produced numerous memorable treatments of artists and writers.

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Read more: John Tripp Biography - (1927–86), Diesel to Yesterday, The Loss of Ancestry, The Province of Belief, Bute Park http://www.jrank.org/literature/pages/6038/John-Tripp.html#ixzz0edvqfyuN