Poetry Book Society

PS published with Oxford University Press her Selected Poems, 1980-1996, which was chosen as a Poetry Book Society Recommendation.

GA published a new book of poetry, Lintel, which was chosen as a Poetry Book Society selection.

She also edited the Poetry Book society anthology for this year, which appeared in November.

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.

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. In 1996 she became a judging member of the T...

This volume won a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation.

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...

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.

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...

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 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 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...

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