Sally Purcell

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SP was a twentieth-century poet of distinction (whose scholarly bent showed itself in an astonishing range of esoteric allusion) and a translator (mostly of poetry) from a virtuoso range of languages. She also edited books of poetry, including anthologies, and wrote on both art and religion.

Milestones

1 December 1944
SP was born at Aston Fields in Worcestershire (a small place now swallowed up in Bromsgrove).
Jay, Peter, and Sally Purcell. “Foreword and Note on the Text”. Collected Poems, edited by Peter Jay and Peter Jay, Anvil Press Poetry, 2002, pp. 19 -24.
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Blain, Virginia, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy, editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
4 January 1998
SP died after three months in hospital (partly unconscious) from an exceptionally rare complaint: lymphoma of the brain cells. She was fifty-three.
Jay, Peter, and Sally Purcell. “Foreword and Note on the Text”. Collected Poems, edited by Peter Jay and Peter Jay, Anvil Press Poetry, 2002, pp. 19 -24.
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September 2002
Peter Jay edited and published the posthumous Collected Poems of SP , with a preface by Marina Warner .
“Bowker’s Global Books in Print”. globalbooksinprint.com.
Purcell, Sally, and Marina Warner. Collected Poems. Jay, PeterEditor , Anvil Press Poetry, 2002.
prelims

Biography

As an undergraduate at Oxford, says Marina Warner, SP was known by all four of her names.
Warner, Marina, and Sally Purcell. “Preface”. Collected Poems, edited by Peter Jay and Peter Jay, Anvil Press Poetry, 2002, pp. 15 -18.
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Birth and Family

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