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Angela Topping

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Angela Topping. Courtesy Wenlock Poetry Festival.

Angela Topping (born 2 October 1954) is a English poet, literary critic, and educator.

Life[]

Topping was born in Widnes, Cheshire to working class parents

She was educated in Liverpool at Broughton Hall Grammar School for Girls.

After graduating from the University of Liverpool with a degree in English and classical civilization she went on to study for a postgraduate degree in Victorian studies.

Career[]

Although writing from a young age (she published poetry at the age of 19 in Arts Alive Merseyside) Topping married and raised 2 daughters while writing her earliest 2 collections

She has published 3 solo poetry collections, Dandelions for Mothers' Day (1988, 1989), The Fiddle (1999) and The Way We Came (2007). She has edited a festschrift for Liverpool-based poet Matt Simpson featuring works by U.A. Fanthorpe, Anne Stevenson, Roger McGough, and Kenneth Muir,[1] and an anthology of Christian poetry.

After working in education for 20 years, most notably at Upton Hall School FCJ, Topping concentrates full-time on writing, and has been the author of several critical works for Greenwich Exchange.

Writing[]

The friendship of Matt Simpson was a formative influence on Topping's work, and continued until his death in 2009.

Publications[]

Poetry[]

  • Dandelions for Mothers’ Day. Exeter, Devon, UK: Stride, 1988.
  • The Fiddle: New and selected poems. Exeter, Devon, UK: Stride, 1999.
  • The Way We Came. Portishead, Bristol, UK: Bluechrome 2007.
  • I Sing of Bricks. Cambridge, UK: Salt, 2011.
  • Catching On: An elegiac sequence for Matt Simpson (1936-2009). Presteigne, Powys, UK: Rack Press, 2011.
  • Paper Patterns. Belfast: Lipwing, 2012.

Non-fiction[]

  • Focus on 'Spies' by Michael Frayn. London: Greenwich Exchange, 2008.
  • Focus on The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter. London: Greenwich Exchange, 2009.
  • Focus on John Clare's 'Selected Poetry'. London: Greenwich Exhange, 2009.

Juvenile[]

  • The New Generation (children's poetry). London: Salt, 2010.

Edited[]

  • The Least Thing: An anthology of Christian writing (with foreword by George Szirtes). Exeter, UK: Stride, 1989.
  • Making Connections: A festschrift for Matt Simpson. Exeter, Devon, UK: Stride, 1996.
  • Letting Go: Poems of childhood, daughterhood and parenthood. Keyworth, Nottingham, UK: Mother's Milk Books, 2013.
Angela_Topping_reading_from_Letting_Go

Angela Topping reading from Letting Go


Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.[2]

See also[]


References[]

Notes[]

  1. ↑ Making Connections: A festschrift for Matt Simpson (edited by Angela Topping). Exeter, UK: Stride, 1996.
  2. ↑ Search results = au:Angela Topping, WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, Mar. 28, 2015.

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