Beginner's Luck
eBook - ePub

Beginner's Luck

  1. 93 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Beginner's Luck

About this book

When she died, in 2009, Anthony Thwaite described U.A. Fanthorpe as a 'smiling subversive with a voice like bird-song'. An encouraging example to all late developers, this particular bird's voice took its time: she didn't become a poet until she was 45. But these examples of her very earliest work show the latent mastery and the rapid development of the craft that would bring her wide critical acclaim and an affectionate general readership. The mysteries of the trade gradually reveal themselves as rooted in a wide and uncensored range of subject-matter, a life-time's love of words, and an intuitive grasp of the mechanics of form and voice. Recognising her role so late, she was a woman in a hurry; there wasn't time for self-consciousness or grandiose notions of 'vocation'. 'A poet, ' she said, 'is a smuggler. He imports things clandestinely which are not supposed to have got through the customs.' Poetry 'happened to me', she would say. Her job? To listen, to pass it on.

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Information

Publisher
Bloodaxe Books
Year
2019
Print ISBN
9781780374741
eBook ISBN
9781780374758
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Poetry
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Description
  3. Title Page
  4. Contents
  5. Introduction by R.V. BAILEY
  6. A confused noise within
  7. A funny set-up
  8. A high wind
  9. A marriage
  10. Administrator
  11. All Souls
  12. An honest enquiry
  13. Apology for clarity
  14. At Cadbury
  15. Boarding kennels
  16. Complaints Department
  17. Consultantā€™s holiday
  18. Crab
  19. Cured depressive
  20. Defeated
  21. Demonstration of leuco-coagulation treatment to a conference of the Royal Society of Psychiatrists
  22. Diagnosis
  23. Durdham Down
  24. Eavesdropper
  25. Fairy-tale
  26. For Sappho
  27. From a bestiary
  28. Gay Christians
  29. George Herbertā€™s church at Bemerton
  30. Gingerbread maker
  31. Headmistress
  32. House-hunting
  33. In-patients
  34. Infidelity
  35. Introducingā€¦
  36. Job description: poet
  37. Linguist
  38. Management committee
  39. Meeting at night
  40. Miss Morris
  41. Misunderstood
  42. November in Bristol
  43. O and M study: the boatman
  44. Obsessiveā€™s Song
  45. On a Dead Social Worker
  46. On behalf of Chaos
  47. Paper friends
  48. Passer-by
  49. Phoenix
  50. Playtime
  51. Poem for Temps
  52. Problem picture
  53. Rites de passage
  54. Rodmell Churchyard
  55. Sexual delinquent
  56. Sir
  57. Song of the flea
  58. Swifts
  59. T-group
  60. The bowl of roses
  61. The brides of Christ
  62. The golden girls
  63. The head housemaid tells the receptionist a joke
  64. The Receptionist
  65. This quiet little Welshwoman
  66. To the Holy Ghost
  67. Typist
  68. Wise children
  69. Womanā€™s world
  70. Writerā€™s garden
  71. About the Author
  72. Copyright