Elizabeth Bartlett (1924-2008). Courtesy Snipview.
Elizabeth Bartlett (24 April 1924 - 18 June 2008) was an English poet.
Life[]
Bartlett was born and grew up in Deal, Kent. She won a grammar school scholarship,[1] but left school at 15, and worked in a factory making hypodermic needles.[2]
Her earliest published poem, "Half Holiday", appeared in the magazine Poetry London when she was 19.[3]
Also at 19 she married Denis Perkins. They had a son, Alex, and she was stepmother to his 2 sons, Benedick and Adrian. She lived in Burgess Hill, West Sussex, for 60 years.[4] She worked for many years in the health service, as a doctor's receptionist and for the Home Care Service.[1]
Writing[]
Peter Porter described her work as "truthful, powerful, and unexaggerated. The deprivations of childhood become the deprivations of adulthood and then the disappointments and loneliness of middle age."[2]
Recognition[]
- 1996 Cholmondeley Award
Publications[]
- A Lifetime of Dying: Poems, 1942-1979. 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.[1]
Audio / video[]
- Peterloo Poetry No. 2 (with William Scammell) (Audio Cassette). Peterloo Poets.[1]
- Elizabeth Bartlett Reading from her Poems (CD). The Poetry Archive, 2005.[1]
See also[]
References[]
Notes[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Elixabeth Bartlett (1924-2008), The Poetry Archive. Web, Dec. 25, 2013.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Elizabeth Bartlett, The Telegraph, June 26, 2008. Web, Apr. 25, 2014.
- ↑ Carol Rumen, Elizabeth Bartlett, The Guardian, July 29, 2008. Web, Apr. 25, 2014.
- ↑ Deryn Rees-Jones (4 August 2008). "Elizabeth Bartlett: Poet of the lonely and vulnerable". The Independent. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/elizabeth-bartlett-poet-of-the-lonely-and-vulnerable-884265.html.
External links[]
- Poems
- "Surgery"
- Audio / video
- Books
- Elizabeth Bartlett at Amazon.com
- About
- Elizabeth Bartlett at Bloodaxe Books
- Elizabeth Bartlett obituary at The Guardian
- Elizabeth Bartlett obituary at The Telegraph
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