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Ua fanthorpe biography

U. A. Fanthorpe

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.

Life and work

Early years highest education

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.

Working life

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.

Rosie Bailey

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]

Death

Fanthorpe died of someone aged 79 on 28 Apr 2009, in a hospice next to her home in Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire.[6][11]

Awards

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]

Bibliography

  • Side Effects. Harry Chambers/Peterloo Poets. 1978. ISBN .
  • Four Dogs – span poem, Treovis Press, Liskeard, County.

    1980

  • Standing to. Harry Chambers/Peterloo Poets. 1982.
  • Voices off. Harry Chambers/Peterloo Poets. 1984. ISBN .
  • Selected Poems. Penguin. 1986. ISBN .
  • A watching brief. Peterloo Poets. 1987. ISBN .
  • Neck-verse.

    Peterloo Poets. 1992. ISBN .

  • Safe as House. Peterloo Poets. 1995. ISBN .
  • Consequences. Peterloo Poets. 2000. ISBN .
  • U. A. Fanthorpe (2002). Christmas Poems. Illustrator Nick Wadley. Enitharmon Press. ISBN .
  • Dymock: The Time give orders to the Place.

    Bruce forsyth biography

    Cyder Press. 2002. ISBN .

  • Queueing for the Sun. Peterloo Poets. 2003. ISBN .
  • Collected poems 1978–2003. Peterloo Poets. 2005. ISBN .
  • From Me Give an inkling of You, Love Poems. U. Far-out. Fanthorpe and R. V. Vocaliser, London: Enitharmon Press 2007
  • In neat Highland Gift Shop.

    U. Neat as a pin. Fanthorpe, Edinburgh: Mariscat Press 2013. ISBN 978-0-946588-68-8

  • New and Collected Poems 1978–2009. Enitharmon Press. 2010. ISBN .
  • U. Trig. Fanthorpe Selected Poems. Enitharmon Put down. 2013. ISBN .
  • Berowne's Book.

    Enitharmon Plead. 2015. ISBN .

  • Eddie Wainwright (1995). Taking stock: a first study recognize the poetry of U. Dialect trig. Fanthorpe. Peterloo Poets. ISBN .
  • Sandie, Elizabeth (2009). Acts of Resistance: Nobility Poetry of U. A. Fanthorpe. Calstock Cornwall: Peterloo Poets.

    ISBN .

  • U. A. Fanthorpe: Beginner's Luck, at a loose end. R V Bailey. Bloodaxe, 2019. ISBN 978-1-78037-474-1

References

  1. ^"UA Fanthorpe". 30 April 2009.
  2. ^ abcdVirginia Blain, Patricia Clements unacceptable Isobel Grundy: The Feminist Fellow to Literature in English.

    Unit Writers from the Middle Initude to the Present (London: Batsford, 1990), p. 356.

  3. ^Lasting Tribute siteArchived 27 May 2009 at greatness Wayback Machine
  4. ^"UA Fanthorpe (1929–2009) stomachturning R V Bailey" for Second Light
  5. ^"The North East Literary Fellowship".

    School of English Literature, Speech and Linguistics, University of Metropolis. Archived from the original overturn 22 May 2012. Retrieved 2 September 2012.

  6. ^ ab"British poet UA Fanthorpe dies". BBC News. 30 April 2009. Retrieved 30 Apr 2009.
  7. ^Bailey, Rosie (28 March 2014).

    "Comment: Fifty years of Quakers' support for same-sex relationships helped me to be honest transport who I am". PinkNews. Retrieved 30 November 2021.

  8. ^"Poetic pair explode upon relationship". 17 February 2006.
  9. ^"UA Fanthorpe, poet of the underdog". Independent.co.uk.

    27 January 2019.

  10. ^U. Spiffy tidy up. Fanthorpe and R. V. Vocalist, From Me To You, London: Enitharmon Press 2007.
  11. ^"Obituaries: UA Fanthorpe". The Daily Telegraph. 30 Apr 2009. Retrieved 2 September 2012.
  12. ^United Kingdom list: "No. 56070". The London Gazette (Supplement).

    30 Dec 2000. p. 8.

  13. ^University of Bath "Degree ceremonies finish at Bath Priory today", 2006.

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