According to The Canadian Encyclopedia, "Preview's orientation was cosmopolitan; its members looked largely towards the English poets of the 1930s for inspiration.
[5] Anderson and Doernbach were members of the Labor-Progressive Party,[7] and were active supporters of Labour-Progressive MP Fred Rose.
[8] Following his divorce from Doernbach in 1950, Anderson left Canada, teaching for two years in Malaysia before returning to England.
He subsequently entered into a same-sex relationship with Alistair Sutherland, with whom he co-edited Eros: An Anthology of Male Friendship in 1961;[7] in this era, he also published memoirs and travel writing.
[7] Despite this, he continued to treat his sexuality as a private matter, declining inclusion in an anthology of gay male literature in 1972.