Drawing on letters, journals and published writing, this text provides an account of Roy Fuller’s life and work. All the books of poetry are discussed and the novels receive attention. A story of Fuller’s career also unfolds: provincial schoolboy; solicitor’s clerk; law student; wartime Navy radar engineer in England and East Africa; post-war solicitor and legal director of Woolwich Building Society; Oxford Professor of Poetry; BBC Governor; and Chairman of the Arts Council Literature Panel.