Christmas Poems - Brossura

Fanthorpe, U. A.

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ISBN 10: 1900564130 ISBN 13: 9781900564137

Casa editrice: Enitharmon Pr, 2002

Riassunto

U.A. Fanthorpe's Christmas Poems gathers together the poems she wrote and sent to friends as Christmas cards from 1974 to 2002. Now readers can enjoy Fanthorpe's yearly output in its entirety. Her subject matter covers a broad range of seasonal characters, from angels to personified Christmas trees, and a variety of styles to match, from moments of beautiful lyricism to the comically touching Gloucestershire foxes begging baby Jesus to visit: 'Come live wi we under Westridge / Where the huntin folk be few'. Fanthorpe is witty and highly original, rethinking the Christmas story from quirky angles, to create her own alternative Christmas legend – from the cat and the sheep-dog left out of the stable, to the wicked fairy's gifts for Jesus. Above all, these poems are celebrations of Christmas joy and love.

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Informazioni sugli autori

U. A. Fanthorpe (1929-2009) was born in Kent and read English at St Anne’s College, Oxford, before training as a teacher. She was Head of English at Cheltenham Ladies’ College, and then ‘became a middle-aged drop-out in order to write’, publishing her first collection, Side Effects, in 1978. Her eight volumes of poetry were all published by Peterloo, and her Selected Poems was published by Penguin in 1986. Enitharmon Press publish her Christmas Poems and From Me to You, love poems by Fanthorpe and R. V. Bailey. In 1994 U. A. Fanthorpe was the first woman to be nominated for the post of Professor of Poetry at Oxford. She was awarded the CBE in 2001 and the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 2003, when her Collected Poems were published. In 2010 Enitharmon published her definitive volume New and Collected Poems which features a preface by The Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy.

U. A. Fanthorpe was the first woman to be nominated for the post of Professor of Poetry at Oxford.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Enitharmon Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1900564130
• ISBN 13: 9781900564137
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Disegnatore: Wadley Nick
• Numero di pagine: 66
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile