10 Facts About Joseph Macleod

Joseph Todd Gordon Macleod was a British poet, actor, playwright, theatre director, theatre historian and BBC newsreader.

Joseph Macleod passed his bar examinations, though never practised as a barrister, preferring a career as an actor, and had aspirations as a poet.

Joseph Macleod staged some of Ezra Pound's Noh plays, and some Ibsen and Chekhov.

Joseph Macleod was intermittently involved in theatre production after this, and in 1952 won the Arts Council Silver Medal for his play Leap in September.

Basil Bunting was an admirer of this early poetry, and claimed Joseph Macleod was the most important living British poet in his 'British' edition of Poetry.

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In 1937 Joseph Macleod became secretary of Huntingdonshire Divisional Labour Party and stood as a parliamentary candidate, but failed to gain election.

In 1938, Joseph Macleod became an announcer and newsreader at the BBC, and he began to write and publish poetry under the pseudonym "Adam Drinan".

Joseph Macleod was one of the first to succeed in rendering the qualities of Gaelic poetry in English.

Joseph Macleod moved to Florence in 1955, where he lived until his death in 1984.

Joseph Macleod's work was re-discovered in the late 1990s, and Cyclic Serial Zeniths from the Flux: Selected Poems of Joseph Macleod, edited and with an introduction by Andrew Duncan, was published by Waterloo Press in 2008.