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According to the Dictionary of Literary Biography, reviewers liked this book, praising its vivid and forceful use of language. PB , however, later remembered that it brought the killer bees out in force, led...

This volume won a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation.

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...

SH 's mother was delighted at her success, but nonetheless afraid of the events of her life becoming public: after this Hill began to carefully code her poems to evade biographical criticism. This book...

This was PS 's third book to be chosen as a Poetry Book Society Recommendation.

The Carcanet edition was a Poetry Book Society Choice.Jody Allen Randolph named three poems here (The Journey, Mise Eire, and The Oral Tradition) as defining landmarks of late twentieth-century Irish...

This book was another Poetry Book Society Recommendation. On its cover Michèle Roberts is quoted writing in Time Out that SH evokes the inner childhood world we're supposed to give up as we become...

The volume was a Poetry Book Society Choice. This year the Lannan Foundation awarded EB a Lannan Literary Award for Poetry.

This book was a Poetry Book Society Choice.David Profumo in the Sunday Times praised the collaboration as [q]uirky and riddling and fleet of foot.John Kerrigan in the London Review of Books...

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...

This book was a Poetry Book Society recommendation.

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.Christopher Ricks hailed PL as the best...

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 .

Kathryn Gray , reviewing this collection in Mslexia, noted Padel's readiness to break the rules, and found her usually on the right side of the fine line separating the sublime from the ridiculous.

Tony Conran in New Welsh Review noted that he found this the most satisfying of GC 's collections so far, and that he was fascinated by her movement away from the individual isolating lyric...