Ua fanthorpe biography of christopher
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New, hopeful arrangements
Christopher Arksey chooses poems bygd Philip Larkin, Christopher Reid and U.A. Fanthorpe to take to his desert island
‘Sunny Prestatyn’ by Philip Larkin
For fuck’s sake, inom say, the second inom arrive. Would you look at that? There, raked into the sand at my feet, a &#;tuberous cock and balls&#; welcomes me ashore. So this is Titch Thomas’s Island, is it? Perfect. It’s well signposted though, I’ll give him that. No sooner have I passed one set of directions than another graffitied dick arrows me the right way. Where to, inom can’t säga. I just hope there’s a cosy cave around here where – wait, is that a St. George’s flag?
I first read ‘Sunny Prestatyn’ as an impressionable undergraduate, and it instantly appealed to me. Or the little bastard in me, I should say. The same little bastard who religiously defacerad his dad’s Daily Mail. The same who taped over the first lektion of a GCSE French cassette with Derek and Clive’s ‘You Stupid Cunt’. Who scribbled a b
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Female poets are restored to history
IT WAS A woman who relegated them to obscurity but now a man has rescued them. Professor Christopher Ricks has chosen 29 female poets for the revised Oxford Book of English Verse, to be published next month.
In , when the anthology was last updated, Dame Helen Gardner, the distinguished literary critic, considered only nine worthy of inclusion. The new version of "poetry's bible" includes many names which will be unknown to the casual reader. From Mary Herbert, a contemporary of Shakespeare, to Elaine Feinstein, the poet who is writing the biography of the late Ted Hughes, a clutch of female poets will stand alongside Milton, Pope and Dryden.
Prof Ricks, who teaches at Boston University, said the gender of the writers had not concerned him. "What most mattered to me in selecting a poem was whether it moved and delighted me and would move and delight others."
Curiously, the first editor of the volume, Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, man of letters a
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U.A. Fanthorpe dies at 79; acclaimed English poet
U.A. Fanthorpe, a highly regarded English poet who was first inspired by the human tragedy she saw in a neurological hospital, died April 28 in a hospice near her home in Wotton-under-Edge in western England, said her publisher, Peterloo Poets. She was
No cause of death was announced.
Her late-starting career was crowned with honors, including the Queen’s Medal for Poetry in In she was the first woman to be nominated to be professor of poetry at Oxford (losing to James Fenton), and she was a leading candidate for poet laureate in
Ursula Askham Fanthorpe was born July 22, , in London. A graduate of Oxford University, she taught at Cheltenham Ladies’ College for 16 years and became head of the English department.
“I began to see that power had an effect on me that I didn’t like,” she said, so she resigned and enrolled with a temporary agency, which led to a receptionist’s job at a neurological hospital in Bristol in
Her ex