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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.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
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
In the era of collectives she helped to produce the feminist verse anthologies Cutlasses & Earrings, 1977 (with Michelene Wandor
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
Gillian Clarke praised the book for suggesting the way that women spend their lives in uncertainty,for its evocation of unease in domestic...
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...

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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...

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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.