Poetry Bookshop

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Publishing Frances Cornford
The Poetry Bookshop published Frances Cornford 's Spring Morning, with eight small woodcuts by her cousin Gwen Raverat .
“Notice: Spring Morning”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 696, p. 172.
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British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Publishing Frances Cornford
The Poetry Bookshop published Frances Cornford 's Autumn Midnight, a selection of previously printed poems with wood engravings by Eric Gill .
Cornford, Frances, and Eric Gill. Autumn Midnight. Poetry Bookshop.
24
Publishing Frances Cornford
Spring Morning proved to be immensely popular. The Poetry Bookshop reprinted it in 1918 and issued a new edition in 1923.
Woolmer, J. Howard, and Penelope Fitzgerald. The Poetry Bookshop, 1912-1935: A Bibliography. Woolmer/Brotherson.
22
Each printing had a press run of one thousand, making a total of...
Publishing Frances Cornford
The Poetry Bookshop advertised this book as a companion volume
Cornford, Frances, and Eric Gill. Autumn Midnight. Poetry Bookshop.
24
to Spring Morning. Cornford had previously published poems in this collection in several magazines, including The London Mercury and The New Leader.
Textual Production Michael Field
The Poetry Bookshop issued A Selection From the Poems of Michael Field in 1923, bringing together pieces from their published poetry collections and plays, such as Underneath the Bough, Callirrhoë; Fair Rosamund, Wild...
Textual Production Penelope Fitzgerald
She planned to write something about Harold Monro and the Poetry Bookshop , which she felt to have been unfairly eclipsed by the much-heard-of Bloomsbury group.
Hill, Rosemary. “Making Do and Mending”. London Review of Books, Vol.
30
, No. 18, pp. 9-10.
9
She also worked on but did not...
Friends, Associates Charlotte Mew
CM attended a Poetry Bookshop reading in Bloomsbury at the invitation of Alida Klementaski (later wife of Harold Monro ), who greatly admired her work.
Warner, Val. “New Light on Charlotte Mew”. PN Review, Vol.
24
, No. 1, pp. 43-7.
46
Monro, Alida, and Charlotte Mew. “Charlotte Mew—A Memoir”. Collected Poems of Charlotte Mew, Gerald Duckworth, p. vii - xx.
vii
Stanford, Donald E., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 19. Gale Research.
310
Textual Production Charlotte Mew
CM published the only collection of poetry to appear in her lifetime, The Farmer's Bride, through the Poetry Bookshop .
Fitzgerald, Penelope. Charlotte Mew and Her Friends. Collins, p. 240 pp.
159
Textual Production Charlotte Mew
A second collection of CM 's poetry, The Rambling Sailor, was published posthumously by The Poetry Bookshop .
Stanford, Donald E., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 19. Gale Research.
308
Friends, Associates Charlotte Mew
CM refused an invitation to visit Edith Sitwell after they met at the Bookshop in 1919.
Warner, Val. “New Light on Charlotte Mew”. PN Review, Vol.
24
, No. 1, pp. 43-7.
46
Fitzgerald, Penelope. Charlotte Mew and Her Friends. Collins, p. 240 pp.
191
Reception Charlotte Mew
Alida Klementaski (later Monro) read the poem and was electrified
Monro, Alida, and Charlotte Mew. “Charlotte Mew—A Memoir”. Collected Poems of Charlotte Mew, Gerald Duckworth, p. vii - xx.
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by it. She immediately committed it to memory, and a couple of years later repeated it to Harold Monro , editor of the newly...
Publishing Charlotte Mew
The Poetry Bookshop printed 1,000 copies of the first edition of the collection, which took several years to sell out.
Fitzgerald, Penelope. Charlotte Mew and Her Friends. Collins, p. 240 pp.
158, 160
This was a large run for the Poetry Bookshop, which often printed only...
Occupation Anne Stevenson
AS started, with Antoinette Watley and Michael Farley , what she calls a small, doomed publishing company.
Contemporary Authors, Autobiography Series. Gale Research.
9: 285
A year later she and Farley moved to the bookshop town of Hay-on-Wye in Brecknockshire (which...
Wealth and Poverty Anne Stevenson
Money she inherited from him kept the Poetry Bookshop going another couple of years.
Contemporary Authors, Autobiography Series. Gale Research.
9: 286
Textual Production Anna Wickham
The Poetry Bookshop published a chapbook by AW , The Contemplative Quarry.
Wickham, Anna, and James Hepburn. The Writings of Anna Wickham, Free Woman and Poet. Editor Smith, Reginald Donald, Virago Press.
171
Grant, Joy. Harold Monro and the Poetry Bookshop. Routledge and Kegan Paul.
120
Wickham, Anna. The Contemplative Quarry. Poetry Bookshop.

Timeline

1 January 1913: Harold Monro opened the Poetry Bookshop at...

Writing climate item

1 January 1913

Harold Monro opened the Poetry Bookshop at 35 Devonshire Street (now Boswell Street) in Bloomsbury.

Texts

Cornford, Frances, and Eric Gill. Autumn Midnight. Poetry Bookshop, 1923.
Cornford, Frances, and Gwen Raverat. Spring Morning. Poetry Bookshop, 1915.
Farjeon, Eleanor, and William Rothenstein. The Country Child’s Alphabet. Poetry Bookshop, 1924.
Farjeon, Eleanor, and David Michael Jones. The Town Child’s Alphabet. Poetry Bookshop, 1924.
Field, Michael. A Selection From the Poems of Michael Field. Editors Sturgeon, Mary and Thomas Sturge Moore, Poetry Bookshop.
Field, Michael. Deirdre; A Question of Memory; Ras Byzance. Poetry Bookshop, 1918.
Field, Michael. In the Name of Time. Poetry Bookshop, 1919.
Mew, Charlotte. The Farmer’s Bride. Poetry Bookshop, 1916.
Mew, Charlotte, and Alida Monro. The Rambling Sailor. Poetry Bookshop, 1929.
Monro, Alida, and Charlotte Mew. “Introductory Note”. The Rambling Sailor, Poetry Bookshop, 1929, pp. 7-8.
Wickham, Anna. The Contemplative Quarry. Poetry Bookshop, 1915.
Wickham, Anna. The Little Old House. Poetry Bookshop, 1921.