Poetry Book Society

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.

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.

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.

GA published a new book of poetry, Lintel, which was chosen as a Poetry Book Society selection.

PS published with Oxford University Press her Selected Poems, 1980-1996, which was chosen as a Poetry Book Society Recommendation.

She also edited the Poetry Book society anthology for this year, which appeared in November.

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.