He also played drums, performing in an early incarnation of the avant-rock group Henry Cow.
He grew up in Thames Ditton until age 13, when he went to Lancing College in West Sussex.
[4] In 1967, Attwooll earned a scholarship to study English at Pembroke College, Cambridge,[5] where he became the first person in his immediate family to go to university.
[2] Attwooll began a publishing career in 1970 at Oxford University Press, starting as a trainee editor.
[3][9] Poems appear in the following anthologies: Poems appeared in magazines including: 14 Magazine, Agenda, The Cannon's Mouth, The Interpreter's House, Magma, The North, Paris Lit Up, Poetry Salzburg Review, The Reader, The Rialto, Smiths Knoll and Under the Radar.