Foyles

While living in Highgate RG took to organizing readings: at Foyles bookshop, promoting young poets; at Kenwood House; and for the Arts Council , where she spent two years on the Poetry Panel...

In February 1958 KN 's poetry featured in a public reading at Foyles bookshop in London.

When finished, the book was refused by a round dozen of publishers in London. It drew a fatal rejection slip from Macmillan , Heinemann (where the managing director told her to bring it back if...

While planning it she made a careful first-hand study of English nuns in India. She had written it the summer before publication, in the evenings of an eighteen-day sea voyage, pregnant, in the top...