OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Poetry Society
Connections
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Muriel Spark | With this novel Spark returns towards the subject-material offered by earlier phases of her own life. According to Stannard, she was for the first time using herself directly as a subject. Ageing is an important... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Muriel Spark | It covers Spark's formative years and her career up to the point of her first literary breakthrough, but it reveals little that was not known before. Its precise and charmingly evocative memories of Edinburgh almost... |
Textual Production | Ruth Fainlight | This was re-issued by the Poetry Society
in 1997. |
Textual Production | Muriel Spark | MS
approached the process of writing in a manner characteristically savouring of magical ritual. She wrote in longhand, seldom revising, and never used a pen anyone else had touched. Her notebooks were of a particular... |
Textual Production | Ruth Padel | RP
joined with five other poets in Machinery of Grace. A Tribute to Michael Donaghy
(1954-2004), published by the Poetry Society
in 2005. That same year she read some of her poems for the... |
Textual Production | Kathleen Raine | An address by KR
entitled The Written Word: A Speech Delivered at the Annual Luncheon of The Poetry Society
, 1963, reached prnt in the form of an essay focusing on the physical process... |
Textual Production | Michèle Roberts | MR
was writing poetry seriously from the period of working on her first novel. Roberts, Michèle. Paper Houses. Virago. 141 |
Textual Production | Catherine Byron | CB
wrote The Renderers, in the Vale of the River Tas, South Norfolk on a commission from the Poetry Society
and the trAce Online Writing Centre
: a poem about a place for the... |
Textual Production | Stevie Smith | SS
read at a Poetry Society
Gala Recital at the Festival Hall, London, to an audience of 2,700. Spalding, Frances. Stevie Smith: A Critical Biography. Faber and Faber. 271 |
Textual Production | May Cannan | The Poetry Society
seems to have sold its copy, which is now in the library of the University of Alberta
. University of Alberta Libraries On-line Catalogue. http://www.library.ualberta.ca/. |
Reception | Medbh McGuckian | After publishing this volume, MMG
was given a major bursary the same year by the Irish Arts Council. She also won the Rooney Prize (Dublin), Ireland's top award for Irish Literature (1982), and the Alice Hunt Bartlett |
Reception | Patricia Beer | Responses to PB
's poetry have varied widely, even among her fellow poets. Jeni Couzyn
has charged her with the crime of not rocking the boat, of making herself a favourite . . . for... |
Reception | Carol Ann Duffy | CAD
said she agreed to take the position only because she wanted the nation to have its first woman Laureate: when she was a candidate in the previous round she got scores of letters from... |
Reception | Helen Dunmore | This collection won the Poetry Society
's Alice Hunt Bartlett
Award. Dunmore, Helen. Short Days, Long Nights. Bloodaxe Books. prelims |
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. |
Timeline
: John Cotton and Ted Walker founded a poetry...
Writing climate item
Autumn1962
John Cotton
and Ted Walker
founded a poetrymagazine, Priapus, called after the classical fertility god who was known for his huge and constantly erect penis. Cotton then launched the Priapus Press
in 1967.
April 2005: The poet Fiona Sampson took up the position...
Writing climate item
April 2005
The poet Fiona Sampson
took up the position of editor of Poetry Review (published by the Poetry Society
)—the first woman to hold this post since Muriel Spark
more than forty years before.
Texts
Rumens, Carol. “Tyros and Tested: Frances Horovitz, Catherine Byron, Penelope Shuttle, Sylvia Kantaris, Alan Moore, R. A. Maitre, Adrienne Rich”. Poetry Review, Vol.
76
, No. 4, Poetry Society, pp. 55-7.