Neck-Verse By U.A. Fanthorpe
Neck-Verse book
Ursula Askham Fanthorpe published as U A Fanthorpe was an English poet She was educated at St Catherines School Bramley in Surrey and at St Annes College Oxford where she received a first class degree in English language and literature and subsequently taught English at Cheltenham Ladies College for sixteen years She then abandoned teaching for jobs as a secretary receptionist and hospital clerk in Bristol in her poems she later remembered some of the patients for whose records she had been responsible. Neck-Verse epub reader Her first volume of poetry Side Effects was published in 1978 She was Writer in Residence at St Martins College Lancaster now University of Cumbria 1983 85 as well as Northern Arts Fellow at Durham and Newcastle Un Ursula Askham Fanthorpe published as U A Fanthorpe was an English poet She was educated at St Catherine s School Bramley in Surrey and at St Anne s College Oxford where she received a first class degree in English language and literature and subsequently taught English at Cheltenham Ladies College for sixteen years She then abandoned teaching for jobs as a secretary receptionist and hospital clerk in Bristol in her poems she later remembered some of the patients for whose records she had been responsible. Millstone around their neck verse Her first volume of poetry Side Effects was published in 1978 She was Writer in Residence at St Martin s College Lancaster now University of Cumbria 1983 85 as well as Northern Arts Fellow at Durham and Newcastle Universities. Neck-Verse epub reader In 1987 Fanthorpe went freelance giving readings around the country and occasionally abroad In 1994 she was nominated for the post of Professor of Poetry at Oxford Her nine collections of poems were published by Peterloo Poets Her Collected Poems came out in 2005 Many of her poems are for two voices In her readings the other voice is that of Bristol academic and teacher R. Neck-Verse poetry python V Rosie Bailey Fanthorpe s life partner of 44 years The couple co wrote a collection of poems From Me To You Love Poems that was published in 2007 by Enitharmon site_link Lucid and sometimes amusing poems which cultivate the knack of looking at the world from other perspectives Poetry I just love Ursula Fanthorpe simply because she writes in such a way that I want to keep reading and re reading and all the time I am thinking what an incredibly simple image why has nobody else ever thought of that but then I suppose they were all saying that about the wheel Just one example which is so simple but it opens out so much possibility but then again that is what poetry is all about isn t it The limes have the look of someoneWho has been silent a long timeAnd is about to say a very good thing This image has always echoed in me The wisdom of trees the mystery of nature the ever hopeful glance towards a better future I don t know whether any or all of these or other ideas spring inside another s head when they read that line but Fanthorpe feeds you so many She throws in the image or the line or the joke and leaves you to get on with it Followed swiftly by the shock or the smile or the punch in the stomach as she transforms what you thought you were reading into something quite different Again no read date because these I return to again adn again Poetry 4. Neck-Verse epub reader ATLAS There is a kind of love called maintenanceWhich stores the WD40 and knows when to use it Which checks the insurance and doesn t forgetThe milkman which remembers to plant bulbs Which answers letters which knows the wayThe money goes which deals with dentistsAnd Road Fund Tax and meeting trainsAnd postcards to the lonely which upholdsThe permanently rickety elaborateStructures of living which is Atlas. Neck-Verse book And maintenance is the sensible side of loveWhich knows what time and weather are doingTo my brickwork insulates my faulty wiring Laughs at my dryrotten jokes remembersMy need for gloss and grouting which keepsMy suspect edifice upright in the airAs Atlas did the sky Poetry
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