Poetry Society

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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...
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.
169
to render an amateur...
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...
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.
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...
Literary responses Carol Ann Duffy
Among widely differing responses, critic John Sutherland and Poetry Society director Judith Palmer concurred in noting how the near-incoherent shape of this poem suggests rage and disgust almost too strong for speech.
Brown, Mark. “Carol Ann Duffy leaps into expenses row with first official poem as laureate”. The Guardian.
Leisure and Society Elaine Feinstein
She belongs to the Poetry Society and the Eastern Arts Association .
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
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...
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.
182, 192, 194
Stannard, Martin. Muriel Spark. The Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
98
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.
165-8
Stannard, Martin. Muriel Spark. The Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
78-81, 97
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.
202-3

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