Charles Fisher (poet)

For other people named Charles Fisher, see Charles Fisher (disambiguation).

Charles Fisher (21 November 1914, Swansea - 23 January 2006, Bangkok) was a British (Welsh) journalist, writer, poet and adventurer. Charles was the last surviving member of the Kardomah group, a literary and artistic circle in Swansea circa 1930, which included Dylan Thomas, Vernon Watkins and Daniel Jones.

Fisher was educated at the Bishop Gore School, Swansea, where he acted in plays with the young Dylan Thomas. He left school to become a journalist, and during World War II was an operative for British Intelligence.

After the War Fisher wrote for Reuters, the Swansea Evening Post and the BBC. He was briefly married to Isabel Elana Alonzo. In 1953 he emigrated to Canada, where he became a Hansard reporter in the Canadian House of Commons. In 1963 he married Jane Edwards, with whom he had one daughter, Caitlin.

Charles had a home on Elgin Street, in Ottawa, Canada, famous in the 1960s and 70s for its vibrant company, and after retirement, lived in Almonte, Ontario.

He wrote the book of poems, The Locust Years. Just before his death, he completed his memoir Adios Granada, an account of living with the Gypsies in Sacremonte in Spain in the 1950s and 1960s. He is survived by his daughter Caitlin.

External links

• BBC reports on Fisher address on the 50th anniversary of Dylan Thomas' death [1]
• Guardian Obituary [2]

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Name	Fisher, Charles
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Date of birth	21 November 1914
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Date of death	23 January 2006
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