Poetry Society

Connections

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Reception Patricia Beer
Responses to PB 's poetry have varied widely, even among her fellow poets. Jeni Couzyn has charged her with the crime of not rocking the boat, of making herself a favourite . . . for...
Textual Production Catherine Byron
CB wrote The Renderers, in the Vale of the River Tas, South Norfolk on a commission from the Poetry Society and the trAce Online Writing Centre : a poem about a place for the...
Occupation Catherine Byron
CB also does freelance work and various community projects. She has been a member of the Arvon Foundation , the major provider of residential courses for writers in Britain, since 1994; for three years she...
Textual Production May Cannan
The Poetry Society seems to have sold its copy, which is now in the library of the University of Alberta .
University of Alberta Libraries On-line Catalogue. http://www.library.ualberta.ca/.
Publishing Wendy Cope
WC caused a stir late in 2007 over a poem jointly commissioned by the Poetry Society and the Authors' Licensing and Copyright Society , entitled The Law of Copyright.
Reception Carol Ann Duffy
CAD said she agreed to take the position only because she wanted the nation to have its first woman Laureate: when she was a candidate in the previous round she got scores of letters from...
Literary responses Carol Ann Duffy
Among widely differing responses, critic John Sutherland and Poetry Society director Judith Palmer concurred in noting how the near-incoherent shape of this poem suggests rage and disgust almost too strong for speech.
Brown, Mark. “Carol Ann Duffy leaps into expenses row with first official poem as laureate”. The Guardian.
Intertextuality and Influence Helen Dunmore
HD 's many other writings include reviews (of both poetry and fiction), introductions (to the poems of Emily Brontë , the stories of D. H. Lawrence and F. Scott Fitzgerald , and a study of...
Reception Helen Dunmore
This collection won the Poetry Society 's Alice Hunt Bartlett Award.
Dunmore, Helen. Short Days, Long Nights. Bloodaxe Books.
prelims
Gillian Clarke praised the book for suggesting the way that women spend their lives in uncertainty,for its evocation of unease in domestic...
Textual Production Ruth Fainlight
This was re-issued by the Poetry Society in 1997.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Leisure and Society Elaine Feinstein
She belongs to the Poetry Society and the Eastern Arts Association .
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Performance of text Alison Fell
AF was a constant source of scenes, burlesques, and improvisations for performance by the Women's Liberation Street Theatre Group . She also wrote for a number of underground or radical papers: Ink, Islington Gutter...
Reception Medbh McGuckian
After publishing this volume, MMG was given a major bursary the same year by the Irish Arts Council. She also won the Rooney Prize (Dublin), Ireland's top award for Irish Literature (1982), and the Alice Hunt Bartlett
Occupation Ruth Padel
RP has seen her commitment to poetry as including a commitment to encouraging and instructing readers of it. Invited by the Poetry Society to stand for election as its Chair, she was persuaded to do...
Textual Production Ruth Padel
RP joined with five other poets in Machinery of Grace. A Tribute to Michael Donaghy (1954-2004), published by the Poetry Society in 2005. That same year she read some of her poems for the...

Timeline

: John Cotton and Ted Walker founded a poetry...

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Autumn1962

John Cotton and Ted Walker founded a poetrymagazine, Priapus, called after the classical fertility god who was known for his huge and constantly erect penis. Cotton then launched the Priapus Press in 1967.

April 2005: The poet Fiona Sampson took up the position...

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April 2005

The poet Fiona Sampson took up the position of editor of Poetry Review (published by the Poetry Society )—the first woman to hold this post since Muriel Spark more than forty years before.

Texts

Rumens, Carol. “Tyros and Tested: Frances Horovitz, Catherine Byron, Penelope Shuttle, Sylvia Kantaris, Alan Moore, R. A. Maitre, Adrienne Rich”. Poetry Review, Vol.
76
, No. 4, Poetry Society, pp. 55-7.