Robert Creeley

In the early 1960s AQ was the lover of New Zealand artist Billy Apple (then a leading figure on the Pop scene). Within the next few years she then formed relationships with two American experimental...

In the USA, DL soon became friends with Robert Creeley and Kenneth Rexroth . From October 1951 she corresponded with William Carlos Williams , to whom she remained close until the end of his life...

In 1963, at a conference in Vancouver, there occurred the only meeting of all four of the poets who were regarded as leaders of the Black Mountain group: DL , Robert Duncan , Charles Olson

AQ was one of the less-known English experimental writers of the 1960s. She has been likened to Graham Greene , Nathalie Sarraute , Samuel Beckett , Robert Creeley , Virginia Woolf , and Anna Kavan

She set a high rate of production over the next few years. In 1958 came both Five Poems (with illustrations by Jess Collins , the male partner of Robert Duncan ), published by White Rabbit Press