Brian Higgins (poet)

He was educated in 1960 at the "York Minster", Soho.’ Thus states the biographical note on the endpaper of Brian Higgins's first book of poems, "The Only Need".

A knife in my guts is the line of a pen through my mark And all my biography told in the numbers to ten The cock of my eye to the sun and the laugh of my soul to the dark, For I am one of the faceless signs, one of the Welfare Men.

Yes, ordinate and abscissa, they chose for the graph The amount of Time spent related to What is Produced And a line through incorellate points is my strange epitaph “With the usual allowance for error X equals Y is educed.” He was born in Batley, Yorkshire, and educated at the University of Hull.

Wright amusingly goes on to recall: "More than once Swift and I had to sit on his head to stop him writing furious letters full of impossible pecuniary demands to whichever was the unfortunate publisher of the moment.

"[4] And David Wright on Higgins in Poetry Review: "Martin Seymour-Smith remarks in his Guide to Modern World Literature, ‘a hit-or-miss poet .