James Stewart Parker (20 October 1941-2 November 1988) was a Northern Irish poet and playwright. He was born in Sydenham, Belfast, of a Protestant working class family. While still in his teens, he contracted bone cancer and had a leg amputated. He studied for an MA in Poetic Drama at Queen's University, Belfast on a scholarship before commencing teaching in America. In "British Poetry since 1945", Edward Lucie-Smith calls him "a rawer, rougher, … Wikipedia
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