A. S. J. Tessimond
1902 - 1962/English
Arthur Seymour John Tessimond was an English poet. After studying at Liverpool University, he moved to London where he worked in bookshops, and also as a copywriter. He later moved to France. An eccentric and an Imagist, Tessimond wrote astute, elegant, urban poetry. He first began to publish in the 1920s in literary magazines. He was to see three volumes of poetry were published during his life: Walls of Glass in 1934, Voices in a Giant City in 1947 and Selections in 1958. He contributed several poems to a 1952 edition of Bewick's Birds. He suffered from bipolar disorder, and received electro-convulsive therapy. He died in 1962 from a brain haemorrhage.
