Philip Frankley

Englishman
Philip Frankley
Biographical Information
Position	Poet
Affiliation	The Notion Club
Language	English
Birth	1932
Physical Description
Gender	Male

Philip Frankley (born in 1932) was a member of the Notion Club.

History

Frankley was a poet educated at Queen's, at one time well-known as a leader of the Queer Metre movement, but now known as just a poet who had published several volumes of collected verses. He is said to have suffered from "horror borealis" - intolerance of all things Northern or Germanic, but nonetheless was a close friend of Lowdham whose chief interest lay in the Anglo-Saxon language and history. Sometimes Lowdham refered to him with made-up titles based on his name (Greek phil-ippos, "horse-loving"), like "Lover of Horses and Horseplay" or "Horsefriend of Macedon".

According to Guildford he regards any knowledge of his own language at any period before the Battle of Bosworth as a misdemeanour.

During one of the meetings of the Notion Club, he recited the poem Imram (The Death of Saint Brendan) before the other members. He said that it came to him, more or less complete, in his dream.

In 1989, Frankley published a volume of a collection of poems entitled Experiments in Pterodactylics. Of which, the opening poem was a short poem that he read at the Notion Club.