Who’s Who. Adam and Charles Black, 1849–2024, Annual Volumes.
Poetry Book Society
Connections
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Reception | Helen Dunmore | HD
became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1997 and was awarded an Honorary DLitt by the University of Glamorgan
in 1998. |
Reception | Selima Hill | This book was another Poetry Book Society
Recommendation. Hill, Selima. My Sister’s Horse. Smith/Doorstop Books, 1996. 2 |
Reception | Patricia Beer | According to the Dictionary of Literary Biography, reviewers liked this book, praising its vivid and forceful use of language. PB
, however, later remembered that it brought the killer bees out in force, led... |
Reception | Elaine Feinstein | This volume won a Poetry Book Society
Special Commendation. Feinstein, Elaine. The Clinic, Memory. Carcanet, 2017. cover |
Reception | Sylvia Kantaris | This book was a Poetry Book Society
Choice. Kantaris, Sylvia. Lad’s Love. Bloodaxe Books, 1993. back pages |
Reception | Patricia Beer | Reviews were again highly favourable, and this book too was a Poetry Book Society
choice. Caroline L. Cherry
has written that here traditional forms and meters, paradoxes, dazzling wordplay, and complexities are tempered with a... |
Reception | Michelene Wandor | This book was a Poetry Book Society
Recommendation. Alan Brownjohn
called it MW
's best book to date, combining erudition and passion as poet, musician and scholar in a collection that . . . continually... |
Reception | Jackie Kay | This book was a Poetry Book Society
recommendation. |
Reception | Eavan Boland | The Carcanet
edition was a Poetry Book Society
Choice. OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
Reception | Eavan Boland | The volume was a Poetry Book Society
Choice. Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. Boland, Eavan. In a Time of Violence. Norton, 1994. jacket Lannan Literary Awards. http://www.lannan.org/literary/year.htm#94. |
Reception | Philip Larkin | This collection was a Poetry Book Society
choice. It received an award from the Arts Council
and brought Larkin the Queen's Medal for Poetry in June 1965. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Brennan, Maeve. The Philip Larkin I Knew. Manchester University Press, 2002. 62 |
Reception | Penelope Shuttle | This was PS
's third book to be chosen as a Poetry Book Society
Recommendation. |
Reception | Gillian Clarke | Reviewers of this book included Anne Stevenson
. Letting in the Rumour, which followed in 1989, was a Poetry Book Society
recommendation and was reviewed by Sheenagh Pugh
. Elfyn, Menna, editor. Trying The Line. Gomer, June 1997. 106 Gillian Clarke. http://gillianclarke.co.uk/home.htm. |
Reception | Anne Sexton | The book was listed as a Poetry Book Society
recommendation and AS
was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
. Middlebrook, Diane Wood. Anne Sexton: A Biography. Houghton Mifflin, 1991. 243 |
Reception | Gillian Clarke | Tony Conran
in New Welsh Review noted that he found this the most satisfying of GC
's collections so far, Elfyn, Menna, editor. Trying The Line. Gomer, June 1997. 19 |
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