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Garry Lyle was educated at Scots College, Warwick, Church of England Grammar School and Teachers' College in Brisbane and began his teaching career in western Queensland in 1935. In 1937 he moved to Melbourne and studied theology and worked as a secondary school teacher and a freelance journalist. He served with the Army Medical Corps during World War II and had a keen interest in theology, literature, music and politics. Following his discharge, Lyle worked as an educational officer for the Workers' Educational Association, Sydney, from 1946-1948.

Lyle contributed verse to Bohemia and also gathered contributions from A. D. Hope and Harry Hooton, (qq.v.) and produced a small, untitled periodical. A short editorial explained that the poets were 'fed-up with self-conscious bards' and 'unoriginal importers of meretricious styles already done to death overseas'. Responding with satire, they targeted followers of Freud, surrealists and 'green aesthetes' in three issues of this untitled periodical [Untitled: An Untitled, Unpretentious, Unadvertised and Unusual Selection of Verse]. The magazine declared no single editor, but indicated that each poet was editor of their own work. O. M. Somerville (q.v.) also contributed to the later issues.