Poetry Book Society

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Textual Production Carol Rumens
She also edited the Poetry Book society anthology for this year, which appeared in November.
Whitaker’s Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons.
(1988)
Textual Production Helen Dunmore
HD published a volume of poetry entitled Glad of These Times, which was welcomed by the Poetry Book Society as combining delicate, exact, surprising language and very strong thought.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
Textual Production Penelope Shuttle
PS published with Oxford University Press her Selected Poems, 1980-1996, which was chosen as a Poetry Book Society Recommendation.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
Textual Production Gillian Allnutt
GA published a new book of poetry, Lintel, which was chosen as a Poetry Book Society selection.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
“Author’s Page: Gillian Allnutt”. Bloodaxe Books.
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.
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Gillian Clarke. http://gillianclarke.co.uk/home.htm.
Reception Ruth Padel
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.
Gray, Kathryn. “review of <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>The Soho Leopard</span&gt”;. Mslexia, Vol.
22
, p. 48.
48
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.
19
and that he was fascinated by her movement away from the individual isolating lyric...
Reception Kathleen Raine
Critics applauded the pure and chiselled images
Stanford, Donald E., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 20. Gale Research.
20: 295
in this first collection of poems to appear after a gap of thirteen years. The book was a Poetry Book Society choice.
Stanford, Donald E., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 20. Gale Research.
20: 295
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.
Gillian Clarke. http://gillianclarke.co.uk/home.htm.
Reception Carol Rumens
This was named as a Poetry Book Society Recommendation.
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.
122
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 Helen Dunmore
The Raw Garden was a Poetry Book Society Choice.
Dunmore, Helen. Short Days, Long Nights. Bloodaxe Books.
prelims
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.
Dowson, Jane, editor. Women’s Poetry of the 1930s: A Critical Anthology. Routledge.
123
This too was a Poetry Book Society recommendation.
Dowson, Jane, editor. Women’s Poetry of the 1930s: A Critical Anthology. Routledge.
122
Reception Helen Dunmore
Two poems in this volume, The dream-life of priests and Sisters leaving before the dance, won individual awards at poetry competitions at Cardiff and Cheltenham. The volume received a Poetry Book Society Recommendation.
Dunmore, Helen. Short Days, Long Nights. Bloodaxe Books.
prelims, cover
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.
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Timeline

1953: The Poetry Book Society was founded, largely...

Writing climate item

1953

The Poetry Book Society was founded, largely through the efforts of T. S. Eliot , to promote the reading of poetry.

By late July 1963: Rosemary Tonks (1928-2014) issued the first...

Women writers item

By late July 1963

Rosemary Tonks (1928-2014) issued the first of her two volumes of poetry, Notes on Cafés and Bedrooms, which was a Poetry Book Society recommendation. The second collection, Iliad of Broken Sentences, appeared in 1967.

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