[1] Tebb studied English at the Leeds Training College 1961-1964 and while there ... "read widely, Proust, Firbank, Dickens, Ginsberg, Sartre, Kierkegaard, and of course, The New Poetry (Plath, Lowell and Berryman)" [2] He and taught at Wyther Park Primary School 1964–67.
[3] At the University of Leeds he mixed with Gregory Fellows in Poetry[4] including Martin Bell, Peter Redgrove, Jon Silkin and David Wright.
[5] His first collection was praised by John Carey in the New Statesman and his work was included in the Penguin anthology Children of Albion: Poetry of the Underground in Britain.
She had severe depression throughout her life and protested and campaigned for better mental health care and Tebb supported her efforts and was, when needed, her carer.
[12] 1966 Five quiet shouters : an anthology of assertive verse : Angela Carter, Peter Redgrove, Wendy Oliver, John Cotton and Michael Holmes.