Poetry Book Society

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Reception Helen Dunmore
It was also a Poetry Book Society recommendation.
Dunmore, Helen. Helen Dunmore. http://www.helendunmore.com/index.asp.
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.
In 1996 she became a judging member of the T...
Reception Elaine Feinstein
This volume won a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation.
Feinstein, Elaine. The Clinic, Memory. Carcanet.
cover
Reception Selima Hill
SH 's mother was delighted at her success, but nonetheless afraid of the events of her life becoming public: after this Hill began to carefully code her poems to evade biographical criticism.
Taylor, Debbie. “Interview with Selima Hill”. Mslexia, Vol.
6
, pp. 39-40.
40
This book...
Reception Selima Hill
This book was another Poetry Book Society Recommendation.
Hill, Selima. My Sister’s Horse. Smith/Doorstop Books.
2
On its cover Michèle Roberts is quoted writing in Time Out that SH evokes the inner childhood world we're supposed to give up as we become...
Reception Sylvia Kantaris
This book was a Poetry Book Society Choice.
Kantaris, Sylvia. Lad’s Love. Bloodaxe Books.
back pages
David Profumo in the Sunday Times praised the collaboration as [q]uirky and riddling and fleet of foot.John Kerrigan in the London Review of Books...
Reception Jackie Kay
This book was a Poetry Book Society recommendation.
Occupation Philip Larkin
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...
Reception Philip Larkin
This collection was a Poetry Book Society choice. It received an award from the Arts Council and brought Larkin the Queen's Medal for Poetry in June 1965.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Brennan, Maeve. The Philip Larkin I Knew. Manchester University Press.
62
Christopher Ricks hailed PL as the best...
Reception Ruth Padel
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.
Gray, Kathryn. “review of <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>The Soho Leopard</span&gt”;. Mslexia, Vol.
22
, p. 48.
48
Reception Kathleen Raine
Critics applauded the pure and chiselled images
Stanford, Donald E., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 20. Gale Research.
20: 295
in this first collection of poems to appear after a gap of thirteen years. The book was a Poetry Book Society choice.
Stanford, Donald E., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 20. Gale Research.
20: 295
Textual Production Carol Rumens
She also edited the Poetry Book society anthology for this year, which appeared in November.
Whitaker’s Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons.
(1988)
Reception Carol Rumens
This was named as a Poetry Book Society Recommendation.
Reception E. J. Scovell
This volume was a Poetry Book Society recommendation.
Dowson, Jane, editor. Women’s Poetry of the 1930s: A Critical Anthology. Routledge.
122
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...
Reception E. J. Scovell
Alan Brownjohn , in a review for the Sunday Times, noted with a clear reminiscence of The Swan's Feet the tough talent at work under the surface calm.
Dowson, Jane, editor. Women’s Poetry of the 1930s: A Critical Anthology. Routledge.
123
This too was a Poetry Book Society recommendation.
Dowson, Jane, editor. Women’s Poetry of the 1930s: A Critical Anthology. Routledge.
122

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