<Tr> <Th> Genre </Th> <Td> Poetry, fiction, journalism </Td> </Tr> <P> James Falconer Kirkup, FRSL (23 April 1918--10 May 2009), born James Harold Kirkup, was an English poet, translator and travel writer . He wrote over 30 books, including autobiographies, novels and plays . He wrote under many pen - names including James Falconer, Jun Honda, Andrew James, Taeko Kawai, Felix Liston, Edward Raeburn, and Ivy B. Summerforest . He became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1962 . </P> <P> James Kirkup was brought up in South Shields, educated at Westoe Secondary School, and then at King's College, Durham University . In World War II he was a conscientious objector, and worked for the Forestry Commission and on the land in the Yorkshire Dales and at the Lansbury Gate Farm, Clavering, Essex . He taught at The Downs School in Colwall, Malvern, where W.H. Auden had earlier been a master . Kirkup wrote his first book of poetry, The Drowned Sailor at the Downs, which was published in 1947 . From 1950 to 1952 he was the first Gregory Poetry Fellow at Leeds University, making him the first resident university poet in the United Kingdom . </P> <P> In 1952 he moved south with his partner Derek to Gloucestershire and became visiting poet at Bath Academy of Art for the next three years . Moving on from Bath, he taught in a London grammar school before leaving England in 1956 to live and work in Europe, the Americas and the Far East . In Japan, he found acceptance and appreciation of his work, and he settled there for 30 years, lecturing in English literature at several universities . </P>

Who was the first resident university poet in the uk