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Connections
Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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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... |
Anthologization | Anne Stevenson | AS
has continued to contribute poems to many of the available outlets: journals like PN Review, the London Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement, Poetry Wales, Poetry Ireland, The... |
Textual Production | Penelope Shuttle | PS
published with Oxford University Press
her Selected Poems, 1980-1996, which was chosen as a Poetry Book Society
Recommendation. |
Publishing | Penelope Shuttle | |
Reception | Penelope Shuttle | This was PS
's third book to be chosen as a Poetry Book Society
Recommendation. |
Occupation | Jo Shapcott | JS
began teaching English at Rolle College
in Exmouth (one of the three main campuses of the University of Plymouth
, which, however, is due to be relocated in a movement towards centralization). She then... |
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 | 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 |
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 Dowson, Jane, editor. Women’s Poetry of the 1930s: A Critical Anthology. Routledge. 122 |
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 | Carol Rumens | This was named as a Poetry Book Society
Recommendation. |
Reception | Kathleen Raine | Critics applauded the pure and chiselled images Stanford, Donald E., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 20. Gale Research. 20: 295 Stanford, Donald E., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 20. Gale Research. 20: 295 |
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>”;. Mslexia, Vol. 22 , p. 48. 48 |
Occupation | Philip Larkin | From the 1960s PL
became a committee-man and public intellectual. He rendered service in various ways to his profession of librarianship. For the Arts Council of Great Britain
he served on the literature panel, and... |
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. 62 |
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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