Thomas Blackburn was a haunted and difficult man. His childhood was
tormented by an obsessive father (an Anglican priest of Mauritian
descent) who scoured his face with peroxide to lighten his skin
colour, and an overaffectionate mother. The moral and sexual
uncertainties of this period were to form the core of his later
poetry and prose. Influenced by Yeats, his work in the Fifties and
Sixties dramatized the conflict between faith and sexuality,
drawing on myth, Christian imagery and Jungian tropes, he produced
a spare and challenging body of work. Although his life was
interrupted by bouts of alcoholism and ill health, he continued
writing through the early Seventies, his work becoming more
intimate and confessional. He was an influential teacher and friend
of many artists in London during the 1950s and 1960s, his daughter
recalling a scene in which her father, wearing a white linen suite,
danced cheek to cheek with a black leather-clad Francis Bacon.
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