U. A. Fanthorpe

Ursula Askham Fanthorpe CBE FRSL ( born July 22, 1929 in Lee Green, London, † April 28, 2009 in Wotton -under-Edge, Gloucestershire ) was a British poet.

Life

After schooling Fanthorpe studied at the University of Oxford and the Faculty of Education, University of London, where she earned a diploma as a teacher. Mid-1970, however, she worked as an employee at a hospital in Bristol.

During this time she also began her poetic career and gave 1978 Side Effects her first book of poetry out, in which her own style of discrete chatter has already become clear, in particular, found her ironically polite excuses received by John Betjeman and Philip Larkin, two of the most popular poets of Great Britain in the 20th century.

In her poems about nature and the human environment, it is more doubtful, but still capable of genuine amazement. Her later books of poetry include Four Dogs (1980 ), Standing To ( 1982), Voices Off ( 1984) and a collection of their most important poems, which was published in 1986.

In 1995 she received the Cholmondeley Award, which is awarded by the Society of Authors annually to several outstanding poet, and was also nominated in 2001 for her services in the lyric to the Commander of the Order of the British Empire. During this time, the volumes of poetry Consequences (2000) and Christmas Poems (2002 ) published before they received the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry for her complete works in 2003.

Last published with Homing In: Selected Local Poems (2006) and Love Poems (2008), two more collections of her poems.

External links and sources

  • Literature by and about UA Fanthorpe in the catalog that German national library
  • Chambers Biographical Dictionary, Edinburgh 2002, ISBN 0 550 10051 2, p 512
  • THE TELEGRAPH: UA Fanthorpe, who died on April 28 aged 79, was a surprising but popular contender to become Poet Laureate Ted Hughes died When in 1998 ( 30 April 2009)
  • Author
  • Literature ( 20th century)
  • Literature ( English )
  • Poetry
  • Commander of the Order of the British Empire
  • Briton
  • Born in 1929
  • Died in 2009
  • Woman
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