JS
had already appeared with Helen Dunmore
and Matthew Sweeney
in 1997 in Penguin Modern Poets volume 12. Writing by her was included in three anthologies in the year 2001. Andrew Motion
placed her work...
Dedications
Ruth Padel
RP
dedicated the volume to her partner Michael Black
, but the opening poem and one other are dedicated to Irish poet Matthew Sweeney
.
Padel, Ruth. Angel. Bloodaxe, 1993.
prelims
The collection (many of whose contents had appeared, often...
Reception
Ruth Padel
The Times Literary Supplement praised this volume's poignant sense of history.Sarah Maguire
in The Listener added the insight that this was history problematised, not finished.
qtd. in
Padel, Ruth. Angel. Bloodaxe, 1993.
back cover
A poem from this volume was anthologized...
Textual Production
Jo Shapcott
During the same year she and Matthew Sweeney
jointly edited an anthology, Emergency Kit: Poems for Strange Times, which draws on worldwide modern writing in English. In 2002 she edited the anthology Discourses...
Textual Production
Grace Nichols
The collection was the third in the five poets anthology series. GN
's poems appeared with those by James Berry
, Judith Nicholls
, Vernon Scannell
, and Matthew Sweeney
. The first and second...
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Texts
Berry, James et al. We Couldn’t Provide Fish Thumbs. Macmillan Children’s Books, 1997.