Poetic Obituaries: Outside music he [Robert Tear] was a polymath.

He published poems and two volumes of quasi-memoirs--Tear Here (1990) and Singer Beware (1995)--both written in a style so odd, so metaphysical and so idiosyncratic as sometimes to defy comprehension. Nevertheless, his seriousness and his interest in things spiritual (he had discovered Buddhism) were self-evident--as they were in his paintings and drawings

from The Guardian: Robert Tear obituary

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