Clarke, Gillian, and Sheenagh Pugh. “Poems”. The Literary Review: Re-Imagining Wales, edited by Tony Curtis and Christopher Meredith, No. 2, Fairleigh Dickinson University.
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Dedications | Carol Ann Duffy | CAD
published her first volume of poetry since becoming Poet Laureate. It is entitled The Bees and bears a dedication in Welsh to Gillian Clarke
, National Poet of Wales. Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. |
Friends, Associates | Frances Horovitz | Among FH
's literary friends were poets or writers Anne Stevenson
, Harold Pinter
, Henry Williamson
, Gillian Clarke
, Kathleen Raine
, Dom Sylvester Houédard
, Inge Laird
, Jeff Nuttall
, and... |
Friends, Associates | Anne Stevenson | AS
's close friends have included many well-known late twentieth-century names in British poetry: Frances Horovitz
, whom she mourned in a number of poems, a trio of drinking friends in Glasgow (Tom Leonard |
Literary responses | Helen Dunmore | This collection won the Poetry Society
's Alice Hunt Bartlett
Award. Dunmore, Helen. Short Days, Long Nights. Bloodaxe Books, 1991. prelims |
Performance of text | Carol Ann Duffy | On the Shore to Shore Nationwide Poetry Tour
in summer 2016 with Gillian Clarke
, Imtiaz Dharker
, and Jackie Kay
, plus other poets who joined in their public readings when the tour stopped... |
Reception | Frances Horovitz | Within a month after FH
's death, her fellow poet Gillian Clarke
compiled a slim anthology of poems in her memory entitled Tenfold: Poems for Frances Horovitz. OCLC WorldCat. |
Reception | Jackie Kay | In 2016 JK
was appointed Makar or poet laureate of Scotland. While she was on the road with Carol Ann Duffy
, Gillian Clarke
, and Imtiaz Dharker
on the Shore to Shore Nationwide Poetry Tour |
Textual Features | Carol Ann Duffy | The sixty poets were each commissioned for a poem marking a particular year. They included Gillian Clarke
(1955: Running Away to the Sea), Ruth Fainlight
(1963: World Events), Liz Lochhead
(1966: Photograph, Art... |
Textual Features | Carol Ann Duffy | Many poems here feature women answering back to canonical male voices: Liz Lochhead
to Donne
, Jenny Joseph
to W. S. Gilbert
, U. A. Fanthorpe
to Walt Whitman
, Wendy Cope
to A. E. Housman |
Textual Features | Carol Ann Duffy | She selected slightly more carols by women than by men, and recalled that Christina Rossetti
's In the Bleak Midwinter was the result of a commission from Scribner's Monthly in 1872. Her own contribution concerns... |
Textual Production | Carol Ann Duffy | CAD
continued to use her position for the voicing of strong political opinions. On 25 July 2009 The Guardian's Review section opened with three pages of poems on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan... |
Textual Production | Carol Ann Duffy | Contributors included Gillian Clarke
(with In a Cardiff Arcade, 1952), Jackie Kay
(with Silver Moon, for London's feminist bookshop, 1982-2001), and Liz Lochhead
(for the more general Essentials). |
Textual Production | Frances Horovitz | The year FH
died, poems of hers were reprinted by Gillian Clarke
, Seamus Heaney
, and Ted Hughes
in a commemorative pamphlet. The next year Michael Horovitz
reprinted others in a similar tribute, A... |
Textual Production | Jackie Kay | Contributing along with Gillian Clarke
, Carol Ann Duffy
, Jo Shapcott
, Fiona Sampson
, and many others, to a collection of poetic responses to Shakespeare
four hundred years after his death, JK
replied... |
Textual Production | Carol Rumens | Since this year, 2007, CR
has been picking a Poem of the Week for the Guardian newspaper, which prints the poem along with her commentary and analysis. Rumens like to pay attention to context and... |