Elizabeth Bartlett (UK poet)



Elizabeth Bartlett (24 April 1924 Deal, Kent - 18 June 2008) was a British poet.

Life
She grew up in Deal, Kent. She won a grammar school scholarship. At nineteen she married Denis Perkins. She was stepmother to his two sons, Benedick and Adrian, and they had a son, Alex. She lived in Burgess Hill, West Sussex, for 60 years.

She worked for 16 years in the health service.

Awards

 * 1996 Cholmondeley Award

Publications



 * A Lifetime of Dying. Liskeard, Cornwall, UK: Peterloo Poets, 1979.
 * Strange Territory. Liskeard, Cornwall, UK: Peterloo Poets, 1983.
 * The Czar is Dead. Hungerford, Berkshire, UK: Rivelin Grapheme, 1986.
 * Instead of a Mass. West Kirby, Wirral, UK: Headland, 1991.
 * Look, No Face. Bradford, West Yorkshire, UK: Redbeck Press, 1991.
 * Two Women Dancing: New and Selected Poems. Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK: Bloodaxe, 1995.
 * Appetites of Love. Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK: Bloodaxe, 2001.
 * Mrs Perkins and Oedipus. Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK: Bloodaxe, 2005.

Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy The Poetry Archive.

Audio / video

 * Peterloo Poetry No. 2 (with William Scammell) (Audio Cassette). Peterloo Poets.
 * Elizabeth Bartlett Reading from her Poems (CD). The Poetry Archive, 2005.