Poetry Book Society

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
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.
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)
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 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
The Raw Garden was a Poetry Book Society Choice.
Dunmore, Helen. Short Days, Long Nights. Bloodaxe Books.
prelims
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.
243
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 Helen Dunmore
It was also a Poetry Book Society recommendation.
Dunmore, Helen. Helen Dunmore. http://www.helendunmore.com/index.asp.
Reception Helen Dunmore
HD became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1997 and was awarded an Honorary DLitt by the University of Glamorgan in 1998.
Who’s Who. Adam and Charles Black.
In 1996 she became a judging member of the T...
Reception Patricia Beer
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...
Reception Elaine Feinstein
This volume won a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation.
Feinstein, Elaine. The Clinic, Memory. Carcanet.
cover
Reception Penelope Shuttle
This was PS 's third book to be chosen as a Poetry Book Society Recommendation.
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...

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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