[2] Together they restored a small derelict Elizabethan Manor house in Norfolk, where they put on plays and created a garden.
[2] The Press produced hand-set editions of work by Geoffrey Grigson, Anthony Hecht, John Fuller, K. W. Gransden, and many others.
[2] Those catalogues were a welcome addition to any potential purchaser's breakfast, often causing them to chortle into their cornflakes at yet another scabrously disrespectful description of some long-dead literary figure; The Times called them "witty and erudite catalogues that became collection pieces in themselves".
[2] From 2020 onwards, Mermaid Books appeared to be in hiatus, and is now, alas, no longer trading.
[3] His poetry was deftly formal, humane, richly textured and deeply civilized.