

He appeared in the 1949 The New British Poets: an anthology edited by Kenneth Rexroth but from 1952 with The Dark Island he devoted himself to fiction.

He published five volumes of poetry: 38 Poems (London: Fortune Press, 1940), then by Faber & Faber Invitation and Warning 1942 The Black Seasons 1945 The Haunted Garden 1947 and The Exiles 1952. Their son, Richard Treece, became a musician with Help Yourself and other rock bands. In 1939 he married Mary Woodman and settled in Lincolnshire as a teacher at Barton-upon-Humber Grammar School. After graduating from the University of Birmingham in 1933, he went into teaching with his first placement being at Tynemouth School. Treece was born in Wednesbury, Staffordshire.
