Poetry Book Society

Many of these poems first appeared in newspapers and periodicals: the Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, The Independent, Oxford Poetry, Poetry Review, and so on, and one pseudonymously as a submission...

AS has continued to contribute poems to many of the available outlets: journals like PN Review, the London Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement, Poetry Wales, Poetry Ireland, The...

The volume (called by Jody Allen Randolph a sustained meditation on power and loss—of nation, of language, of illusions, and possibly of the self anchored by these)was a Poetry Book Society Choice.

This collection received a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation.

JS began teaching English at Rolle College in Exmouth (one of the three main campuses of the University of Plymouth , which, however, is due to be relocated in a movement towards centralization). She then...

From the 1960s PL became a committee-man and public intellectual. He rendered service in various ways to his profession of librarianship. For the Arts Council of Great Britain he served on the literature panel, and...

For a year KC worked at the Oxford University Department of Education . From then until the present she has continued her freelance career as a teacher, writer, journalist, and broadcaster. She has been a...

The slim volume, whose cover reproduces a picture of a horse from Mughal India, saddled but riderless, was one of the series Oxford Poets. It is dedicated to PS 's husband and daughter....

Reviewers of this book included Anne Stevenson . Letting in the Rumour, which followed in 1989, was a Poetry Book Society recommendation and was reviewed by Sheenagh Pugh .

Kathryn Gray , reviewing this collection in Mslexia, noted Padel's readiness to break the rules, and found her usually on the right side of the fine line separating the sublime from the ridiculous.

Tony Conran in New Welsh Review noted that he found this the most satisfying of GC 's collections so far, and that he was fascinated by her movement away from the individual isolating lyric...

Critics applauded the pure and chiselled images in this first collection of poems to appear after a gap of thirteen years. The book was a Poetry Book Society choice.

Again, this book was a Poetry Book Society recommendation. A reviewer noted the use in these poems of kennings and of slate-sharp stress patterns.

This was named as a Poetry Book Society Recommendation.

This volume was a Poetry Book Society recommendation.Janet Montefiore regrets the absence of EJS from Robin Skelton 's anthology New Verse, 1964, while acknowledging that it would be unfair to blame Skelton...