Hilary Corke

Hilary Topham Corke (born: July 12 1921, Malvern, Worcestershire, England, died: September 3 2001, Abinger Hammer, Surrey, England) was a writer, composer and minerologist. He served in the Royal Artillery during World War II. His poems, book reviews, stories, and essays were widely published in many leading British periodicals in the 1950's and early 1960's.

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His poems appeared in Poetry Now (1956) and Penguin Book of Contemporary Verse (1918-1960). Together with Anthony Thwaite and William Plomer he edited New Poems 1961: A P.E.N Anthology of Contemporary Poetry.