RIC CADDEL

 Richard Ivo Caddel
Poet, Musician, Editor, Publisher, Librarian

July 13th 1949, Bedford -- April 1st 2003, Durham

CLICK FOR DETAILS OF MEMORIAL READING IN DURHAM ON NOVEMBER 7th

THIS PAGE WAS ALWAYS MEANT TO BE ONLY A TEMPORARY MEMORIAL: CLICK TO GO TO THE JACKET MAGAZINE "IN MEMORIAM RICHARD CADDEL" SITE COMPILED BY PETER QUARTERMAIN


DONATIONS: Ric and his family asked that, instead of flowers, a donation be made to
The Leukaemia Research Fund, 43 Great Ormond Street, London WC1N 3JJ
in his memory. An easy way to do this is to go to their website
and follow the "donation" link, where credit cards may be used.
There is a blank square at the bottom where you may put
"In Memory of Ric Caddel"
eventually the total amount donated in this way
will be listed under this heading.

Click here for Renga (in memoriam Ric Caddel) from Alec Finlay at the Baltic.

Click here for funeral details

Ric's page at the British Electronic Poetry Centre

Click here for University of Durham note

Click here for The Independent obituary, by Harry Gilonis.

Click here for original text of The Independent obituary, provided by Harry Gilonis.

Click here for a few post-funeral images.



Note from Tony Baker, April 2nd. 2003

In truth I'm desperately confused. I knew this would happen - we talked about it so much - but for 3 years nearly we've exchanged more or less daily & his last one's still in my inbox, as it ought to be, so nothing's changed, so I can write to him & etc.... His strengths were so interior that we almost didn't need to see each other, he got it all across in his notes. I know, and today especially am glad to know, the nurture was mutual. It's going to take years for me to know how much I'll miss him. With Doug Oliver, he more than any expanded my notion of what 'kind' means.

Note from David Preece, April 2nd. 2003

As the man wrote, 'We mask emotion. Never mind.' But I do.

Note from Roy Fisher, April 3rd. 2003

...the last time I was with Ric. (Basil Bunting Centenary, Durham, June 2000) Except for a strange visitation when I was seeing Joyce in a huge Sheffield hospital the following summer. As I walked out of the ward past a mirror-image ward opposite, I saw, silhouetted, what looked like a porter crossing the corridor, maybe with a mop, and having Ric's form and walk. Shortly afterwards he wrote to say he'd hallucinated me across the car park of the same hospital where he and Ann had been visiting her mother.


E-mail from Harry Gilonis, June 10th, 2003



FUNERAL DETAILS


Ric Caddel's funeral will be at Durham Crematorium, 11.30am Friday 11 April. People are welcome to come to the Caddel house afterwards
7 Cross View Terrace, Neville's Cross, Durham DH1 4JY.
There will be buffet food and drink - a kind of informal wake/party/remembrance.

The Crematorium is just outside Durham on South Road (A177, just off A167).

Durham Crematorium
South Road
Durham DH1 3TQ
telephone 0191 3848677
fax 0191 3831850
durhamcrem@v21webmail.com

You can get maps of the locations by inputting the postcodes via http://www.multimap.com/

E-mail from Harry Gilonis, June 10th, 2003

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