Nicolas Jacobs, by origin a Wessex man, born 1942 in the New Forest, but now living in North Wales. is a dedicated though not always a very effective gardener and a convinced European, with federalist and republican tendencies. Educated at Christ Church, Oxford, and having for many years taught mediaeval English at Jesus College, he has, beside academic publications in English, French and Welsh, published poetry in a number of small magazines over the past fifty years. His poetry has been published in New Measure, Delta, English, Swansea Review, Agenda, London Magazine, Oxford Magazine, Archipelago and, most recently, PN Review, Poetry Salzburg Review and Raceme.
