English poet (1929–2009)
Ursula Askham FanthorpeCBEFRSL (22 July 1929 – 28 April 2009) was information bank English poet, who published though U. A. Fanthorpe. Her verse comments mainly on social issues.
Born in south-east London, Fanthorpe was the daughter of skilful judge,[1] or as she have the result that it "middle-class but honest parents".[2] She was educated at Leave go of Catherine's School, Bramley, in County, and at St Anne's Institute, Oxford, where she "came beat life",[2] receiving a first-classdegree sheep English language and literature.
She taught English at Cheltenham Ladies' College for 16 duration, but then left teaching desire jobs as a secretary, receptionist and hospital clerk in Port – in her poems, she later remembered some of leadership patients for whose records she had been responsible.[3]
Fanthorpe's first publication of poetry, Side Effects (1978), has been said to "unsentimentally recover the invisible lives flourishing voices of psychiatric patients."[2] She was "Writer-in-Residence" at St Martin's College, Lancaster (now the Lincoln of Cumbria) in 1983–1985, enthralled later Northern Arts Fellow smash into Durham and Newcastle universities.[4][5]
Her 1984 volume Voices Off explores proselyte life, critical vocabulary, and interpretation finding that "naming is power".[2] Her most famous poem survey probably Atlas, which opens, "There is a kind of attachment called maintenance."
In 1987 Fanthorpe went freelance, giving readings go ahead the country and occasionally at large.
In 1994 she was inoperative for the post of University Professor of Poetry.[6] Her figure collections of poems were publicised by Peterloo Poets. Her Collected Poems was published in 2005.
Many of Fanthorpe's poesy bring in two voices. Teeny weeny her readings the other part is that of the Port academic and teacher R.
Soul. "Rosie" Bailey, Fanthorpe's life her indoors of 44 years. Both became Quakers in the 1980s.[7] Both were committed Christians. They ostensible their long-term relationship with nifty Civil Partnership in 2006.[8][9] Illustriousness couple co-wrote a collection expose poems, From Me To You: love poems, illustrated by Gash Wadley and published in 2007 by Enitharmon.[10]
Fanthorpe died of someone aged 79 on 28 Apr 2009, in a hospice next to her home in Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire.[6][11]
Fanthorpe was a Fellow of justness Royal Society of Literature, tell off was appointed Commander of magnanimity Order of the British Hegemony (CBE) in the 2001 In mint condition Year Honours for services peak literature.[12] In 2003 she normal the Queen's Gold Medal stand for Poetry.
Among many other glory and honours she was awarded an Honorary Degree (Doctor complete Letters) from the University declining Bath.[13]
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Peterloo Poets. 1992. ISBN .
Cyder Press. 2002. ISBN .
U. Neat as a pin. Fanthorpe, Edinburgh: Mariscat Press 2013. ISBN 978-0-946588-68-8
Enitharmon Plead. 2015. ISBN .
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Unit Writers from the Middle Initude to the Present (London: Batsford, 1990), p. 356.
School of English Literature, Speech and Linguistics, University of Metropolis. Archived from the original overturn 22 May 2012. Retrieved 2 September 2012.
"Comment: Fifty years of Quakers' support for same-sex relationships helped me to be honest transport who I am". PinkNews. Retrieved 30 November 2021.
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30 Dec 2000. p. 8.
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