Poetry Book Society

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Reception Selima Hill
This book was another Poetry Book Society Recommendation.
Hill, Selima. My Sister’s Horse. Smith/Doorstop Books.
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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...
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...
Reception Eavan Boland
The volume was a Poetry Book Society Choice.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
This year the Lannan Foundation awarded EB a Lannan Literary Award for Poetry.
Boland, Eavan. In a Time of Violence. Norton.
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Lannan Literary Awards. http://www.lannan.org/literary/year.htm#94.
Reception Sylvia Kantaris
This book was a Poetry Book Society Choice.
Kantaris, Sylvia. Lad’s Love. Bloodaxe Books.
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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...
Reception Jackie Kay
This book was a Poetry Book Society recommendation.
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.
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Christopher Ricks hailed PL as the best...
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.
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, p. 48.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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This too was a Poetry Book Society recommendation.
Dowson, Jane, editor. Women’s Poetry of the 1930s: A Critical Anthology. Routledge.
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Reception Helen Dunmore
The Raw Garden was a Poetry Book Society Choice.
Dunmore, Helen. Short Days, Long Nights. Bloodaxe Books.
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