In the Trojan Ditch: Collected Poems and Selected Translations ( Carcanet Press, 1974).The Discarnation, or How the Flesh became Word and Dwelt Among Us (1967).The Spirit of British Administration (1959).An Asiatic Romance ( Carcanet Press, 1953.Sisson died on 5 September 2003, aged 89. Sisson was appointed a Companion of Honour for his services to Literature. Sisson was married, in 1937, to Nora Gilbertson (d. He was civil/ To everyone, and servant to the devil.' In his collection The London Zoo he writes this epitaph 'Here lies a civil servant. He was a 'severe critic of the British Civil Service and some of his essays caused controversy'. Sisson was no blind admirer of British methods, however. Only slight and negative mention is made of the United States of America. The work notably compares British with French, (then West) German, Swedish, Austrian, and Spanish administrative methods Sisson sees the British Civil Service as emerging favourably from the comparison. A standard text, The Spirit of British Administration (1959), was the product of his Simon Senior Research Fellowship it contains the main fruit of his reflection on the British Civil Service. 1972 was also the year of his retirement from the Civil Service, with the rank of Under-Secretary. He was Simon Senior Research Fellow (1956–57), Director of Establishments, Ministry of Labour (1962–68), and Director of Occupational Safety and Health, Ministry of Employment (1972). During the Second World War he served in the British Army, in the ranks, in India (1942–45). Sisson entered the Ministry of Labour as Principal Assistant in 1936. His novel Christopher Homm experiments with form and is told backwards. The modernism of his poetry follows a 'distinct genealogy' from Hulme to Eliot, Pound, Ford Madox Ford and Wyndham Lewis. He reacted against the prevailing intellectual climate of the 1930s, particularly the Auden Group, preferring to go back to the anti-romantic T. As a poet he first came to light through the London Arts Review, X, founded by the painter Patrick Swift and the poet David Wright. He continued his studies in France and Germany. He was educated at the University of Bristol where he read English and Philosophy. Sisson's parents were Richard Percy Sisson and Ellen Minnie Sisson (née Worlock). He was a great friend of the critic and writer Donald Davie, with whom he corresponded regularly. Sisson was noted as a poet, novelist, essayist and an important translator. Sisson, was a British writer, best known as a poet and translator.īorn in Bristol in 1914, C. Charles Hubert Sisson, CH (22 April 1914 – 5 September 2003), usually cited as C.
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