Tom Paulin
's notice in the London Review of Books rejoiced in Carter's direct, super-real intelligence and grace. For him she was the laureate of de-industrialised England and the hedonistic egalitarianism of her prose—like Ashbery
Literary responses
Edith Somerville
The book did well both in sales and in reviews. By the end of the year 8,000 of the 10,000-copy edition had sold.
Collis, Maurice. Somerville and Ross: A Biography. Faber and Faber, 1968.
226, 228
The poet Tom Paulin
in a poem entitled The Road...
Occupation
Seamus Heaney
In 1980 SH
formed a close association with Brian Friel
's and Stephen Rea
's new theatre company Field Day
. The original goal of this company, to stage contemporary plays outside the commercial theatre...
Textual Production
Catherine Byron
In 1997 the BBC
and the Arts Council
commissioned CB
to produce Writing on Skins, in which she explores writing on vellum, in collaboration with artist Denis Brown
, for the Write Out Loud...
Timeline
By late October 1989: Ted Hughes published his Moortown Diary,...
Writing climate item
By late October 1989
Ted Hughes
published his Moortown Diary, which Tom Paulin
has called his masterpiece.
Lucas, John, b. 1937. “The exclusive eye”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 4516, 20 Oct. 1989, p. 1148.
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Texts
Bishop, Elizabeth, and Tom Paulin. Complete Poems. Chatto and Windus, 2004.
Paulin, Tom. “Entrepreneurship”. London Review of Books, pp. 17-19.
Paulin, Tom. “In an English market”. London Review of Books, Vol.
5
, No. 4, p. 19.
Paulin, Tom. “The Road to Inver”. London Review of Books, p. 18.