# Milner Place

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{{Short description|English writer (1930–2020)}}
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'''Milner Place '''(25 January 1930 – 28 May 2020) was an English writer best known for his poetry. He was born in [Thirsk](/source/Thirsk), [North Yorkshire](/source/North_Yorkshire) to Dorothy F. Place and Tom Place. He had three siblings, Ullin, Dorothy and David. His brother [Ullin Place](/source/Ullin_Place) was well known for his work on consciousness as a process of the brain. His sister, [Dorothy E. Smith](/source/Dorothy_E._Smith) was a sociologist.

== Life and career ==
Early in his life he worked as a forester. From 1948 to 1950 he served in the military, he then studied briefly at an agricultural college, worked as a bartender and managed the family farm. Place lived much of his life on the sea. In 1953 he sailed to [South Africa](/source/South_Africa) where he worked in a copper mine. In 1955 he returned to [England](/source/England) and worked as a journalist. In 1958 he sailed to [New York City](/source/New_York_City) and from 1958 to 1961 lived in the [Bahamas](/source/Bahamas).

In 1961, he bought his first ship and sailed it through Miami and England to [Mallorca](/source/Mallorca). During the Algerian War, he was a smuggler. The years 1962 and 1963 he spent in [Bilbao](/source/Bilbao) and [Madrid](/source/Madrid). In 1965 he captained a sailing ship built in the Netherlands to Lisbon. In the following years he drove several ocean races with [Juan Carlos](/source/Juan_Carlos) the future King of Spain. In 1966 in [Denmark](/source/Denmark) he turned a barge into a yacht and in 1967 and 1968 he ran a yacht charter in [Malta](/source/Malta) for wedding couples and regularly sailed the route via [Lampedusa](/source/Lampedusa) and [Tunisia](/source/Tunisia). In 1969 he was a consultant for [Forte International Hotels](/source/Forte_Group) in [Sardinia](/source/Sardinia) and [Greece](/source/Greece) before he organized a fishing fleet in [Ecuador](/source/Ecuador). Shortly thereafter, he fled to [Peru](/source/Peru) on charges of alleged piracy. He then worked for the Manu River Project and for similar projects in [Brazil](/source/Brazil) and [Panama](/source/Panama). In 1971 he returned to [England](/source/England) before working for time in the Canary Islands as a photographer. In 1973 he traveled to [Mexico](/source/Mexico) to write an ultimately unpublished novel. While struggling with the novel he took up poetry as a relief from working on the novel.<ref>[http://milnerplace.electricmuseum.de/viii.html VIII - milnerplace<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>

Place was an editor for [http://www.poetrycircle.com Poetry Circle], a forum for contemporary poetry in the United States.

In 1976 he moved with his partner, Dorothy, and the stepson, Paul, to [Mallorca](/source/Mallorca). He died in [Huddersfield](/source/Huddersfield), England in May 2020, at the age of 90.<ref>{{cite web |title=Mark A. Murphy – Sea Wake & Some Last Poems By Milner Place |url=https://www.sea-urchin.net/books/moloko-print/mark-a-murphy-sea-wake-some-last-poems-by-milner-place/ |website=Sea Urchin |access-date=7 June 2022}}</ref>

== Works ==
He wrote his first poems in Mallorca in Spanish. After his settlement in Huddersfield / UK in 1987, he began to write poetry in English.
* ''En Busca de mi Alma'', published in Spanish 1977
* ''In a rare time of rain'', [Chatto & Windus](/source/Chatto_%26_Windus)
* ''The confusion of the Anglers'', Wide Skirt Press
* ''Where smoke is'', Wide Skirt Press
* ''Piltdown Man & Bat Woman'', Spout publications
* ''The City of Flowers'', Spout publications
* ''Caminante'', [Wrecking Ball Press](/source/Wrecking_Ball_Press)
* ''Certain matters'', [Lapwing Publications](/source/Lapwing_Publications), Belfast
* ''Odersfelt'', Flux Gallery Press
* ''Naked Invitation'', [Lapwing Publications](/source/Lapwing_Publications), Belfast
*''Joe & Maisie Fay / Maisie Fay & Joe,'' PigeonBike, Canada, 2011
* ''The man who had forgotten the name of trees'' 2013, and ''The Road to Alta Mira'' 2018,  [http://www.molokoplusrecords.de Moloko print], each with drawings by [Harald Häuser](/source/Harald_H%C3%A4user)
He also wrote plays for BBC Radio 3 and 4 and was featured in the show Bookworm in the BBC1 television.

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