The BURIED Book Club discussion

Norman Hidden (1913-2006) was an English author of poetry and prose. He was founder and editor of the magazine New Poetry and was for a time Chairman of the Poetry Society.

He is one of the "fellow travellers" treated in Amongst Those Left: The British Experimental Novel 1940-1980 based on his 1973 book Dr. Kink & His Old-Style Boarding School - a collage of autobiography, poetry, and fiction.

Apart from Say It Aloud (1972), an anthology of verse he edited for schools, his books were mostly if not entirely self-published which is perhaps one reason why he is so well-named. None was even listed on GR till recently, let alone rated or reviewed.

Even the contents of some titles are a bit of a mystery. Leaving aside his poetry and autobiography, Caravan Summer and Other Stories (1999) is what it suggests - a collection of short stories - and so presumably is Europa and Other Stories (2006). What To Do About Nick? (2006) and The Long Journey (2007) could be fiction - or could be something else.

BURIED certainly. Worth reading? Not so sure...

Nice to see people still posting in here. Keep the BBC alive! Thanks for this info on Hidden. You've convinced me that he's not really worth reading . . .

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Thanks for this. Intriguing despite the lukewarm recommendation (which I appreciate -- obviously not all lost works are actually essential).