Robert Wells (born 1947) is a UK poet and fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
[3][4] He attended King's College, Cambridge from 1965 to 1968,[4][5] and worked as a woodsman on Exmoor in 1977, the year The Winter's Task: Poems was published.
[4] Early on, he collaborated with his friends Dick Davis and Clive Wilmer[3] on a book of poems, Shade Mariners.
[2] Wells' poetry was inspired first by Virgil's Georgics and then by his own experiences working as a woodsman.
[6] In it, he explored man's experience of "landscape, how it might be lived in and worked in, recorded and celebrated.