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This book was a Poetry Book Society recommendation.

This book was a Poetry Book Society Choice.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...

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. This book...

This book was another Poetry Book Society Recommendation. 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...

This volume won a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation.

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. In 1996 she became a judging member of the T...

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.

The Raw Garden was a Poetry Book Society Choice.

Two poems in this volume, The dream-life of priests and Sisters leaving before the dance, won individual awards at poetry competitions at Cardiff and Cheltenham. The volume received a Poetry Book Society Recommendation.

It was also a Poetry Book Society recommendation.

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...

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 .

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...

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.

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...