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John Riley (1937–1978) was a poet who was associated with the British Poetry Revival.
Riley was born and grew up in Leeds. He served in the Royal Air Force from 1956 to 1958 and then attended Pembroke College, Cambridge, graduating in 1961. He then worked as a teacher in various schools around the Cambridge area. During this period, he became acquainted with many of the poets who made up the Cambridge group, one of the key elements of the Revival.
He left to take up a teaching post near Oxford in 1966. That same year, he set up the Grosseteste Press with his friend Tim Longville. The pair started a magazine, Grosseteste Review, two years later. Riley retired from teaching in 1970 and returned to Leeds to write full-time. In 1977, he was received into the Orthodox Church. He was murdered near his home on the night of October 27–28, 1978.
Riley's poetry was influenced by Charles Olson and Osip Mandelshtam, whose poetry he translated into English. His first book, Ancient and Modern was published in 1967 and the posthumous The Collected Works in 1980. The latter includes the first full printing of his major long poem, Czargrad. A Selected Poems was published by Carcanet Press in 1995.
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John Riley came from Galway town in the years of the Irish hunger And he sailed away to America when the country was much younger Now the place was strange and work was scarce And all he knew was farming So he followed his other Irish friends to a job in the US Army Adventure calls and some men run, and this is their sad story How some get drunk on demon rum and some get drunk on glory Now they marched down Texas way to the banks of the Rio Grande They built a fort on the banks above to taunt old Santa Anna They were treated bad and paid worse, and then the fighting started And the more they fought the less they thought of the damned old US Army Adventure calls and some men run, and this is their sad story How some get drunk on demon rum and some get drunk on glory Now when the church bells rang on Sunday morn, it set his soul a shiver He saw the Senoritas washing their hair on the far side of the river Then John Riley and two hundred more Irish mercenaries And they cast their lot, right or not, south of the Rio Grande Adventure calls and some men run, and this is their sad story How some get drunk on demon rum and some get drunk on glory How they fought bravely under the flag of the San Patricios Till the Yankees soldiers beat them down at the battle of Churubusco Then fifteen men were whipped like mules On the cheeks they were hot iron branded Made to dig the graves of fifty more, who a hanging fate had handed Adventure calls and some men run, and this is their sad story How some get drunk on demon rum and some get drunk on glory Now John Riley stands and drinks alone at a bar in Vera Cruz And he wonders if it matters much if you win or if you lose "Well, I'm a man who can't go home, I'm a vagabond", says he "I'm a victim of some wanderlust and divided loyalty" Adventure calls and some men run, and this is their sad story How some get drunk on demon rum and some get drunk on glory Adventure calls and some men run, and this is their sad story
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