Poetry Book Society

This volume was a Poetry Book Society recommendation.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...

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. This too was a Poetry Book Society recommendation.

The Raw Garden was a Poetry Book Society Choice.

The book was listed as a Poetry Book Society recommendation and AS was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature .

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.

It was also a Poetry Book Society recommendation.

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...

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...

This volume won a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation.

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...

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...

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 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 slim volume, whose cover reproduces a picture of a horse from Mughal India, saddled but riderless, was one of the series Oxford Poets. It is dedicated to PS 's husband and daughter....