Henry Treece

Poet and historical novelist, born in Wednesbury, West Midlands, C England, UK. He studied at Birmingham University, and became a schoolteacher and writer. After service in World War 2 he co-founded the New Apocalypse movement, a reactionary wave against the literary trends of the 1930s. His style appealed particularly to young readers, and notable works include collections of verse, The Black Seasons (1945) and The Exiles (1952), and the novel The Bronze Sword (1965). Among his historical novels are The Eagles Have Flown (1954), Red Queen, White Queen (1958), and The Green Man (1966).

Henry Treece (December 1911 – June 10, 1966) was a British poet and writer, who worked also as a teacher, and editor. Faber, Invitation and Warning 1942, The Black Seasons 1945, The Haunted Garden 1947 and The Exiles 1952. He appeared in the 1949 The New British Poets, an Anthology edited by Kenneth Rexroth; but from 1952 with The Dark Island he devoted himself to fiction. Representative of his children's books are the trilogy Viking's Dawn, The Road to Miklagard and Viking's Sunset.

He was born in Wednesbury, Staffordshire, and graduated from the University of Birmingham in 1933.

Other poetry anthologies he was involved with include The New Apocalypse (1939) with J. He wrote a critical study of Dylan Thomas, called Dylan Thomas - Dog among the fairies published by Lindsay Drummond, London in 1949. He and Thomas fell out when Thomas refused to sign up as a New Apocalyptic.

He also wrote "Conquerors" in 1932, as a way to reflect on the horrors of war.

He edited issues of Transformation, and A New Romantic Anthology (1949) with Stefan Schimanski, issues of Kingdom Come: The Magazine of War-Time Oxford with Schimanski and Alan Rook, as well as War-Time Harvest.