 Tebbs studied English at the Leeds Training College 1961-1964 and while there ... "read widely, Proust, Firbank, Dickens, Ginsberg, Sartre, Kierkegaard, and of course, The New Poetry (Plath, Lowell and Berryman)"  He and taught at Wyther Park Primary School 1964-67.At the University of Leeds he mixed with Gregory Fellows in Poetry including Martin Bell, Peter Redgrove, Jon Silkin and David Wright.The Gregory fellowship awards were set up by Eric Craven Gregory to encourage young artists.