15 Facts About Christopher Logue

Christopher Logue, CBE was an English poet associated with the British Poetry Revival, and a pacifist.

Christopher Logue was court-martialled in 1945 over a scheme to sell stolen pay books, and sentenced to 16 months' imprisonment, served partly in Acre Prison.

Christopher Logue lived in Paris from 1951 to 1956, and was a friend of Alexander Trocchi.

Christopher Logue served a month in jail for refusing to be bound over not to continue with the 17 September 1961 Parliament Square sit-down.

Christopher Logue was friends for many years with author and translator Austryn Wainhouse, with whom he carried on a lively correspondence for decades.

Christopher Logue was a playwright and screenwriter as well as a film actor.

Christopher Logue's screenplays were Savage Messiah and The End of Arthur's Marriage.

Christopher Logue was a contributor to Private Eye magazine between 1962 and 1993, as well as writing for Alexander Trocchi's literary journal, Merlin.

Christopher Logue won the 2005 Whitbread Poetry Award for Cold Calls.

The arrangement was written by Mick Rogers, who had Christopher Logue credited as a co-writer on the record sleeve.

Christopher Logue's last major work was a long-term project to render Homer's Iliad into a modernist idiom.

Christopher Logue's lines tended to be short, pithy and frequently political, as in Song of Autobiography:.

Christopher Logue wrote the couplet that is sung at the beginning and end of the film A High Wind in Jamaica, the screenplay for Savage Messiah, a television version of Antigone, and a short play for the TV series The Wednesday Play titled The End of Arthur's Marriage, which was directed by Ken Loach.

Christopher Logue appeared in a number of films as an actor, most notably in the Ken Russell films The Devils and Prisoner of Honor, and as the spaghetti-eating fanatic in Terry Gilliam's Jabberwocky.

Christopher Logue wrote for the Olympia Press under the pseudonym Count Palmiro Vicarion, including a pornographic novel, Lust.