[4] Following his service in the army Charles became a stockbroker and proceeded to send his son to private school.
Grier married his first wife [Elizabeth Temple Jamieson) in 1944 and his daughter (Sharon) was born in 1948.
[4] Grier was diagnosed with tuberculosis[5] in his mid-thirties and underwent treatment for two years before he recovered.
Grier decided to become a poet because he felt that meaning was expressed more effectively though words.
[3] Grier's best known works are: A morning from scraps (1955),[4] The year of the sun:poems (1956),[4] The ring of ice (1957),[4] Mazanillo & other poems (1958),[4] A friction of lights (1963),[4] Pictures on the skin (1967),[4] The women of Quebec (1969),[4] Selected poems:1955-1970 (1971),[4] and The assassination of colour (1978).