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Poetry Book Society
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Textual Production | Gillian Allnutt | GA
published a new book of poetry, Lintel, which was chosen as a Poetry Book Society
selection. “Author’s Page: Gillian Allnutt”. Bloodaxe Books. |
Reception | Patricia Beer | According to the Dictionary of Literary Biography, reviewers liked this book, praising its vivid and forceful use of language. PB
, however, later remembered that it brought the killer bees out in force, led... |
Reception | Patricia Beer | Reviews were again highly favourable, and this book too was a Poetry Book Society
choice. Caroline L. Cherry
has written that here traditional forms and meters, paradoxes, dazzling wordplay, and complexities are tempered with a... |
Reception | Eavan Boland | The Carcanet
edition was a Poetry Book Society
Choice. OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
Reception | Eavan Boland | The volume was a Poetry Book Society
Choice. Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. Boland, Eavan. In a Time of Violence. Norton. jacket Lannan Literary Awards. http://www.lannan.org/literary/year.htm#94. |
Literary responses | Eavan Boland | 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) Randolph, Jody Allen. “What Great Art Removes”. Women’s Review of Books, Vol. 26 , No. 2, pp. 21-2. 22 Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. |
Literary responses | Eavan Boland | This collection received a Poetry Book Society
Special Commendation. OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
Occupation | Kate Clanchy | 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... |
Reception | Gillian Clarke | 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
. Elfyn, Menna, editor. Trying The Line. Gomer. 106 Gillian Clarke. http://gillianclarke.co.uk/home.htm. |
Reception | Gillian Clarke | Tony Conran
in New Welsh Review noted that he found this the most satisfying of GC
's collections so far, Elfyn, Menna, editor. Trying The Line. Gomer. 19 |
Reception | Gillian Clarke | 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. Gillian Clarke. http://gillianclarke.co.uk/home.htm. |
Anthologization | Wendy Cope | 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... |
Reception | Helen Dunmore | HD
became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1997 and was awarded an Honorary DLitt by the University of Glamorgan
in 1998. Who’s Who. Adam and Charles Black. |
Textual Production | Helen Dunmore | HD
published a volume of poetry entitled Glad of These Times, which was welcomed by the Poetry Book Society
as combining delicate, exact, surprising language and very strong thought. Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk. |
Reception | Helen Dunmore | The Raw Garden was a Poetry Book Society
Choice. Dunmore, Helen. Short Days, Long Nights. Bloodaxe Books. prelims |
Timeline
1953: The Poetry Book Society was founded, largely...
Writing climate item
1953
The Poetry Book Society
was founded, largely through the efforts of T. S. Eliot
, to promote the reading of poetry.
By late July 1963: Rosemary Tonks (1928-2014) issued the first...
Women writers item
By late July 1963
Rosemary Tonks
(1928-2014) issued the first of her two volumes of poetry, Notes on Cafés and Bedrooms, which was a Poetry Book Society
recommendation. The second collection, Iliad of Broken Sentences, appeared in 1967.
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