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Edwin (Ted) Tarling was a musician, artist and publisher who was born in Stoneferry, East Hull on 16 June 1938. He attended Hull Grammar School and later Hull Art College. This may have resulted in his attempt at being a cartoonist which led to him having two cartoons published. He was probably best known for his participation in the Hull Jazz scene in the 1950s playing the clarinet with other local jazz musicians such as Al Jenner and Roy Burnett. At this time he appeared in a Jazz masterclass which was filmed for a television programme.

He founded the Sonus Press which published a literary magazine Wave which included poems by Philip Larkin, Joan Barton and Anne Stevenson (author of Bitter Fame, a biography of Sylvia Plath) with whom he kept in contact for many years. Ted`s Sonus Press, which was hand set, printed and published by himself, published Frank Redpaths`s poemsTo The Village with an introduction by Douglas Dunn, in 1986.

Ted moved to Cambridge, from Hull, in 1994 to help his sister look after their mother. Ted also painted, took up photography in later life and enjoyed writing clerihews. He died in Cambridge on 29 November 2004 after a prolonged period of illness.

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