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John Tripp (1927- ) was born in Bargoed, a town some fifteen miles north of Cardiff in Glamorgan, Wales, to Henry Paul and Muriel Williams Tripp. His family moved to Whitchurch, in Cardiff, when he was still a boy, and he completed his schooling at the Whitchurch Senior School, Cardiff. From 1945 to 1948 he served as a sergeant in the Royal Army Pay Corps. He later attended Morley College in London, where he received a diploma in moral philosophy in 1963... When he was released from the army he settled in London and began a career as a journalist, working as a news researcher and subeditor for the BBC from 1951 to 1958, as a press officer for the Indonesian Embassy from 1958 to 1967, and as an information officer for the Central Officer of Information from 1967 to 1969. At the same time, while living in London, he was writing poetry deeply rooted in Wales, and he became a member of the London branch of a newly formed Guild of Welsh Writers. In 1966 The Triskel Press brought out his first collection of poems, Diesel to Yesterday , the second in its continuing series of volumes by Anglo-Welsh poets. As Roland Mathias has pointed out, the late 1960s gave evidence of a "new spirit abroad amongst Anglo-Welsh writers" for they had come to feel a new sense of poetic and political possibility for Wales. In 1969 Tripp resigned his position in London and, like a number of other Anglo-Welsh writers at the time, went home to live permanently in Wales. He settled in Whitchurch as a free-lance writer and became literary editor of the magazine Planet at its founding in 1970. He was awarded Welsh Arts Council Bursaries in 1969 and 1972 to support his writing.