Spark, Muriel. Curriculum Vitae: Autobiography. Constable, 1992.
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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Anthologization | Alice Oswald | The residency required her to write poems for installations made by other artists; she also wanted to give back to the natural world which inspired her. The results included a recording placed at the bottom... |
Cultural formation | Muriel Spark | MS
was received into the Roman Catholic
Church by a Maltese priest, Dom Ambrose Agius
(or Aegius), whom she had met earlier at the Poetry Society
. Spark, Muriel. Curriculum Vitae: Autobiography. Constable, 1992. 202-3 |
Employer | Muriel Spark | While she held this post, she was also the editor of the Poetry Society
's magazine, the Poetry Review. Her salary was thirty pounds per month. The Society never put into effect its offer... |
Employer | Muriel Spark | MS
was the General Secretary of the Poetry Society
, an organisation which she had joined as a member in 1946. Spark, Muriel. Curriculum Vitae: Autobiography. Constable, 1992. 165-8 Stannard, Martin. Muriel Spark. The Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2009. 78-81, 97 |
Employer | Muriel Spark | Having been dismissed by the Poetry Society
, MS
worked first for the British Institute of Political Research
, then as part-time editor for European Affairs, a magazine concerned with Eastern European issues. Spark, Muriel. Curriculum Vitae: Autobiography. Constable, 1992. 182, 192, 194 Stannard, Martin. Muriel Spark. The Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2009. 98 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Helen Dunmore | HD
's many other writings include reviews (of both poetry and fiction), introductions (to the poems of Emily Brontë
, the stories of D. H. Lawrence
and F. Scott Fitzgerald
, and a study of... |
Leisure and Society | Elaine Feinstein | She belongs to the Poetry Society
and the Eastern Arts Association
. “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. |
Literary responses | Carol Ann Duffy | Among widely differing responses, critic Brown, Mark. “Carol Ann Duffy leaps into expenses row with first official poem as laureate”. The Guardian, 13 June 2009. |
names | Muriel Spark |
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Occupation | Muriel Spark | She later recounted the ructions that cost her her Poetry Society
job. She set out to raise the quality of the Poetry Review, to cease railing against the moderns, Spark, Muriel. Curriculum Vitae: Autobiography. Constable, 1992. 169 |
Occupation | Catherine Byron | CB
also does freelance work and various community projects. She has been a member of the Arvon Foundation
, the major provider of residential courses for writers in Britain, since 1994; for three years she... |
Occupation | Jo Shapcott | JS
became president of the Poetry Society
, taking over from Paul Muldoon
. “Jo Shapcott is the new president of the Poetry Society”. The Poetry Society: Press Room, 10 Nov. 2005. |
Occupation | Ruth Padel | RP
has seen her commitment to poetry as including a commitment to encouraging and instructing readers of it. Invited by the Poetry Society
to stand for election as its Chair, she was persuaded to do... |
Performance of text | Alison Fell | AF
was a constant source of scenes, burlesques, and improvisations for performance by the Women's Liberation Street Theatre Group
. She also wrote for a number of underground or radical papers: Ink, Islington Gutter... |
Publishing | Wendy Cope | WC
caused a stir late in 2007 over a poem jointly commissioned by the Poetry Society
and the Authors' Licensing and Copyright Society
, entitled The Law of Copyright. |