W. R. Rodgers

W. R. Rodgers

William Robert Rodgers (1909 – 1969), known as Bertie, was a poet, writer, broadcaster, academic and Presbyterian minister from Northern Ireland. He is remembered for his poems, his radio work on Irish literary figures, and his non-sectarian attitude.

He was born in Belfast, and studied at the Queen's University of Belfast. He was ordained in 1935, and worked as a minister in Loughgall, County Armagh. He gave up his ministry in 1946, following a troubled period in which his wife, a doctor, had been subject to mental illness.

He started work as a scriptwriter for the BBC in London, and became a freelance writer in 1953. In 1966 he moved to California, initially at Pitzer College and then to a position at California State Polytechnic. He died in Los Angeles.

Works

*Awake! And Other Poems (1941)
*Europa and the Bull (1952) poems
*Ireland in Colour (1957)
*Essex Roundabout (1963)
*Collected Poems (1971)
*Irish Literary Portraits (1972)

External links

* [http://www.pgil-eirdata.org/html/pgil_datasets/authors/r/Rodgers,WR/life.htm Eirdata page]


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