Poetry Society

CAD said she agreed to take the position only because she wanted the nation to have its first woman Laureate: when she was a candidate in the previous round she got scores of letters from...

This collection won the Poetry Society 's Alice Hunt Bartlett Award.Gillian Clarke praised the book for suggesting the way that women spend their lives in uncertainty,for its evocation of unease in domestic...

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

Responses to PB 's poetry have varied widely, even among her fellow poets. Jeni Couzyn has charged her with the crime of not rocking the boat, of making herself a favourite . . . for...

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.

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...

This was re-issued by the Poetry Society in 1997.

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...

CB wrote The Renderers, in the Vale of the River Tas, South Norfolk on a commission from the Poetry Society and the trAce Online Writing Centre : a poem about a place for the...

The Poetry Society seems to have sold its copy, which is now in the library of the University of Alberta .

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...