Poetry Society

MS was the General Secretary of the Poetry Society , an organisation which she had joined as a member in 1946.

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.

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 .

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...

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, to render an amateur...

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...

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...

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...

SS read at a Poetry Society Gala Recital at the Festival Hall, London, to an audience of 2,700.

JS became president of the Poetry Society , taking over from Paul Muldoon .

MR was writing poetry seriously from the period of working on her first novel. In the era of collectives she helped to produce the feminist verse anthologies Cutlasses & Earrings, 1977 (with Michelene Wandor

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...

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...

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...

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