Ivan Blatny

Ivan Blatny was born in Brno in 1919 and established a name as a poet rapidly in the late 1930s and war years. He was associated with ‘Group 42’, together with Jir˘í Kolar, Kamil Lhoták and others, and was also close at this time to poets such as Jaroslav Seifert and Víte˘zslav Nezval (with whom he later fell out). He left Czechoslovakia in 1948 and came to London, spending the rest of his life in London, Suffolk and Essex and died in Clacton in 1991