Eddie Linden, who has died aged 88, was the editor of the poetry magazine Aquarius, the author of two books of poems, and the subject of a biography. Yet there has seldom been a less likely literary figure.
In the mid- 1960s, by which time he had settled in London, he began to forge a path in the literary world. The first issue of Aquarius appeared in 1969 and after that Eddie could travel further in this new land, requesting and receiving poems from writers such as Seamus Heaney and Derek Mahon, establishing friendships as he went.
He was born Sean Edward Glackin, in Coalisland, County Tyrone. To avoid disgrace, his mother placed him in the care of relatives in Bellshill, Lanarkshire. He took the name of his foster father, Eddie Linden, later the subject of the poem The Miner, which was one of Eddie's favourites at public recitals.
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