Amy Clampitt

PSwrites five mornings per week and, when a fragment hits, always has a notebook to hand. She always leaves first drafts to settle for a few weeks. Influences on her writing, she says, include...

Women are a minority here, but well represented: Fleur Adcock , Anna Letitia Barbauld , Amy Clampitt , Olive Custance (Lady Alfred Douglas) , Emily Dickinson , Freda Downie , U. A. Fanthorpe , Vicki Feaver

With Amy Clampitt and Craig Raine , AS selected and edited for the Arvon Foundation the 1985 Anthology of poems from the Observer and Ronald Duncan Foundation International Poetry Competition. This anthology appeared in 1987...