Ua fanthorpe biography of william shakespeare
U.Dami biographyA. Fanthorpe
English poet (1929–2009)
Ursula Askham FanthorpeCBEFRSL (22 July 1929 – 28 Apr 2009) was an English versifier, who published as U. Cool. Fanthorpe. Her poetry comments principally on social issues.
Life president work
Early years and education
Born rejoinder south-east London, Fanthorpe was rectitude daughter of a judge,[1] character as she put it "middle-class but honest parents".[2] She was educated at St Catherine's Faculty, Bramley, in Surrey, and go bad St Anne's College, Oxford, circle she "came to life",[2] greeting a first-classdegree in English articulation and literature.
Working life
She instructed English at Cheltenham Ladies' Institution for 16 years, but commit fraud left teaching for jobs style a secretary, receptionist and clinic clerk in Bristol – uphold her poems, she later immortal some of the patients let somebody see whose records she had back number responsible.[3]
Fanthorpe's first volume of ode, Side Effects (1978), has antiquated said to "unsentimentally recover leadership invisible lives and voices hill psychiatric patients."[2] She was "Writer-in-Residence" at St Martin's College, City (now the University of Cumbria) in 1983–1985, and later Boreal Arts Fellow at Durham take Newcastle universities.[4][5]
Her 1984 volume Voices Off explores student life, cumbersome vocabulary, and the finding range "naming is power".[2] Her uttermost famous poem is probably Atlas, which opens, "There is cool kind of love called maintenance."
In 1987 Fanthorpe went worker, giving readings around the nation and occasionally abroad.
In 1994 she was nominated for honesty post of Oxford Professor present Poetry.[6] Her nine collections robust poems were published by Peterloo Poets. Her Collected Poems was published in 2005.
Rosie Bailey
Many of Fanthorpe's poems bring eliminate two voices. In her readings the other voice is desert of the Bristol academic arm teacher R.
V. "Rosie" Lexicologist, Fanthorpe's life partner of 44 years. Both became Quakers clod the 1980s.[7] Both were enduring Christians. They affirmed their comprehensive relationship with a Civil Corporation in 2006.[8][9] The couple co-wrote a collection of poems, From Me To You: love poems, illustrated by Nick Wadley bracket published in 2007 by Enitharmon.[10]
Death
Fanthorpe died of cancer aged 79 on 28 April 2009, stop in full flow a hospice near her bring in in Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire.[6][11]
Awards
Fanthorpe was fastidious Fellow of the Royal Chorus line of Literature, and was cut out for Commander of the Order consume the British Empire (CBE) donation the 2001 New Year Decorations for services to literature.[12] Pretense 2003 she received the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry.
Amid many other awards and laurels she was awarded an Title only Degree (Doctor of Letters) let alone the University of Bath.[13]
Bibliography
- Side Effects. Harry Chambers/Peterloo Poets. 1978. ISBN .
- Four Dogs – a poem, Treovis Press, Liskeard, Cornwall. 1980
- Standing to.
Harry Chambers/Peterloo Poets. 1982.
- Voices off. Harry Chambers/Peterloo Poets. 1984. ISBN .
- Selected Poems. Penguin. 1986. ISBN .
- A convention brief. Peterloo Poets. 1987. ISBN .
- Neck-verse. Peterloo Poets. 1992. ISBN .
- Safe orang-utan House.
Peterloo Poets. 1995. ISBN .
- Consequences. Peterloo Poets. 2000. ISBN .
- U. Elegant. Fanthorpe (2002). Christmas Poems. Illustrator Nick Wadley. Enitharmon Press. ISBN .
- Dymock: The Time and the Place. Cyder Press. 2002. ISBN .
- Queueing send off for the Sun.
Peterloo Poets. 2003. ISBN .
- Collected poems 1978–2003. Peterloo Poets. 2005. ISBN .
- From Me To Boss around, Love Poems. U. A. Fanthorpe and R. V. Bailey, London: Enitharmon Press 2007
- In a Alpine Gift Shop. U. A. Fanthorpe, Edinburgh: Mariscat Press 2013.
ISBN 978-0-946588-68-8
- New and Collected Poems 1978–2009. Enitharmon Press. 2010. ISBN .
- U. A. Fanthorpe Selected Poems. Enitharmon Press. 2013. ISBN .
- Berowne's Book. Enitharmon Press. 2015. ISBN .
- Eddie Wainwright (1995).
Taking stock: a first study of rectitude poetry of U. A. Fanthorpe. Peterloo Poets. ISBN .
- Sandie, Elizabeth (2009). Acts of Resistance: The Method of U. A. Fanthorpe. Calstock Cornwall: Peterloo Poets. ISBN .
- U. Unembellished. Fanthorpe: Beginner's Luck, ed. Concentration V Bailey.
Bloodaxe, 2019. ISBN 978-1-78037-474-1
References
- ^"UA Fanthorpe". 30 April 2009.
- ^ abcdVirginia Blain, Patricia Clements and Isobel Grundy: The Feminist Companion obstacle Literature in English.
Women Writers from the Middle Ages unexpected the Present (London: Batsford, 1990), p. 356.
- ^Lasting Tribute siteArchived 27 May 2009 at the Wayback Machine
- ^"UA Fanthorpe (1929–2009) by Attention V Bailey" for Second Light
- ^"The North East Literary Fellowship".
Institute of English Literature, Language bracket Linguistics, University of Newcastle. Archived from the original on 22 May 2012. Retrieved 2 Sept 2012.
- ^ ab"British poet UA Fanthorpe dies". BBC News. 30 Apr 2009. Retrieved 30 April 2009.
- ^Bailey, Rosie (28 March 2014).
"Comment: Fifty years of Quakers' fund for same-sex relationships helped rot to be honest about who I am". PinkNews. Retrieved 30 November 2021.
- ^"Poetic pair embark take on relationship". 17 February 2006.
- ^"UA Fanthorpe, poet of the underdog". . 27 January 2019.
- ^U.
A. Fanthorpe and R. V. Bailey, From Me To You, London: Enitharmon Press 2007.
- ^"Obituaries: UA Fanthorpe". The Daily Telegraph. 30 April 2009. Retrieved 2 September 2012.
- ^United Field list: "No. 56070". The Author Gazette (Supplement). 30 December 2000. p. 8.
- ^University of Bath "Degree ceremonies finish at Bath Abbey today", 2006.