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Connections
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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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... |
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... |
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... |
Textual Production | May Cannan | The Poetry Society
seems to have sold its copy, which is now in the library of the University of Alberta
. |
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. |
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... |
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. |
Reception | Helen Dunmore | This collection won the Poetry Society
's Alice Hunt Bartlett
Award. Dunmore, Helen. Short Days, Long Nights. Bloodaxe Books. prelims |
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... |
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. |
Leisure and Society | Elaine Feinstein | She belongs to the Poetry Society
and the Eastern Arts Association
. “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. |
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... |
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 |
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... |
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... |
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.