Poetry Book Society

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Reception Patricia Beer
Reviews were again highly favourable, and this book too was a Poetry Book Society choice. Caroline L. Cherry has written that here traditional forms and meters, paradoxes, dazzling wordplay, and complexities are tempered with a...
Reception Michelene Wandor
This book was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Alan Brownjohn called it MW 's best book to date, combining erudition and passion as poet, musician and scholar in a collection that . . . continually...
Reception Jackie Kay
This book was a Poetry Book Society recommendation.
Reception Eavan Boland
The Carcanet edition was a Poetry Book Society Choice.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Jody Allen Randolph named three poems here (The Journey, Mise Eire, and The Oral Tradition) as defining landmarks of late twentieth-century Irish...
Reception Eavan Boland
The volume was a Poetry Book Society Choice.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
This year the Lannan Foundation awarded EB a Lannan Literary Award for Poetry.
Boland, Eavan. In a Time of Violence. Norton, 1994.
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Lannan Literary Awards. http://www.lannan.org/literary/year.htm#94.
Reception Philip Larkin
This collection was a Poetry Book Society choice. It received an award from the Arts Council and brought Larkin the Queen's Medal for Poetry in June 1965.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Brennan, Maeve. The Philip Larkin I Knew. Manchester University Press, 2002.
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Christopher Ricks hailed PL as the best...
Reception Penelope Shuttle
This was PS 's third book to be chosen as a Poetry Book Society Recommendation.
Reception Gillian Clarke
Reviewers of this book included Anne Stevenson . Letting in the Rumour, which followed in 1989, was a Poetry Book Society recommendation and was reviewed by Sheenagh Pugh .
Elfyn, Menna, editor. Trying The Line. Gomer, June 1997.
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Gillian Clarke. http://gillianclarke.co.uk/home.htm.
Reception Anne Sexton
The book was listed as a Poetry Book Society recommendation and AS was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature .
Middlebrook, Diane Wood. Anne Sexton: A Biography. Houghton Mifflin, 1991.
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Reception Gillian Clarke
Tony Conran in New Welsh Review noted that he found this the most satisfying of GC 's collections so far,
Elfyn, Menna, editor. Trying The Line. Gomer, June 1997.
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and that he was fascinated by her movement away from the individual isolating lyric...
Reception E. J. Scovell
This volume was a Poetry Book Society recommendation.
Dowson, Jane, editor. Women’s Poetry of the 1930s: A Critical Anthology. Routledge, 1996.
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Janet Montefiore regrets the absence of EJS from Robin Skelton 's anthology New Verse, 1964, while acknowledging that it would be unfair to blame Skelton...
Reception Gillian Clarke
Again, this book was a Poetry Book Society recommendation.A reviewer noted the use in these poems of kennings and of slate-sharp stress patterns.
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Gillian Clarke. http://gillianclarke.co.uk/home.htm.
Reception E. J. Scovell
Alan Brownjohn , in a review for the Sunday Times, noted with a clear reminiscence of The Swan's Feet the tough talent at work under the surface calm.
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Dowson, Jane, editor. Women’s Poetry of the 1930s: A Critical Anthology. Routledge, 1996.
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This too was a Poetry Book Society recommendation.
Dowson, Jane, editor. Women’s Poetry of the 1930s: A Critical Anthology. Routledge, 1996.
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Reception Carol Rumens
This was named as a Poetry Book Society Recommendation.
Reception Helen Dunmore
The Raw Garden was a Poetry Book Society Choice.
Dunmore, Helen. Short Days, Long Nights. Bloodaxe Books, 1991.
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