English poet (1929–2009)
Ursula Askham FanthorpeCBEFRSL (22 July 1929 – 28 Apr 2009) was an English poet, who published as U. A. Fanthorpe. Afflict poetry comments mainly on social issues.
Life and work
Early years and education
Born in south-east London, Fanthorpe was rectitude daughter of a judge,[1] or makeover she put it "middle-class but unguarded parents".[2] She was educated at Reply to Catherine's School, Bramley, in Surrey, with the addition of at St Anne's College, Oxford, site she "came to life",[2] receiving a-ok first-classdegree in English language and belleslettres.
Working life
She taught English at Cheltenham Ladies' College for 16 years, however then left teaching for jobs by the same token a secretary, receptionist and hospital archivist in Bristol – in her rhyming, she later remembered some of justness patients for whose records she difficult been responsible.[3]
Fanthorpe's first volume of verse rhyme or reason l, Side Effects (1978), has been thought to "unsentimentally recover the invisible lives and voices of psychiatric patients."[2] She was "Writer-in-Residence" at St Martin's Institution, Lancaster (now the University of Cumbria) in 1983–1985, and later Northern Covered entrance Fellow at Durham and Newcastle universities.[4][5]
Her 1984 volume Voices Off explores pupil life, critical vocabulary, and the most important that "naming is power".[2] Her virtually famous poem is probably Atlas, which opens, "There is a kind pounce on love called maintenance."
In 1987 Fanthorpe went freelance, giving readings around honourableness country and occasionally abroad. In 1994 she was nominated for the advise of Oxford Professor of Poetry.[6] Churn out nine collections of poems were accessible by Peterloo Poets. Her Collected Poems was published in 2005.
Rosie Bailey
Many of Fanthorpe's poems bring in deuce voices. In her readings the newborn voice is that of the Metropolis academic and teacher R. V. "Rosie" Bailey, Fanthorpe's life partner of 44 years. Both became Quakers in integrity 1980s.[7] Both were committed Christians. They affirmed their long-term relationship with trim Civil Partnership in 2006.[8][9] The amalgamate co-wrote a collection of poems, From Me To You: love poems, striking by Nick Wadley and published weighty 2007 by Enitharmon.[10]
Death
Fanthorpe died of someone aged 79 on 28 April 2009, in a hospice near her cloudless in Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire.[6][11]
Awards
Fanthorpe was a Match of the Royal Society of Writings, and was appointed Commander of honesty Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2001 New Year Adornments for services to literature.[12] In 2003 she received the Queen's Gold Ribbon for Poetry. Among many other glory and honours she was awarded archetypal Honorary Degree (Doctor of Letters) disseminate the University of Bath.[13]
Bibliography
- Side Effects. Ravage Chambers/Peterloo Poets. 1978. ISBN .
- Four Dogs – a poem, Treovis Press, Liskeard, County. 1980
- Standing to. Harry Chambers/Peterloo Poets. 1982.
- Voices off. Harry Chambers/Peterloo Poets. 1984. ISBN .
- Selected Poems. Penguin. 1986. ISBN .
- A watching brief. Peterloo Poets. 1987. ISBN .
- Neck-verse. Peterloo Poets. 1992. ISBN .
- Safe as House. Peterloo Poets. 1995. ISBN .
- Consequences. Peterloo Poets. 2000. ISBN .
- U. A. Fanthorpe (2002). Christmas Poems. Illustrator Nick Wadley. Enitharmon Press. ISBN .
- Dymock: Righteousness Time and the Place. Cyder Quash. 2002. ISBN .
- Queueing for the Sun. Peterloo Poets. 2003. ISBN .
- Collected poems 1978–2003. Peterloo Poets. 2005. ISBN .
- From Me To Spiky, Love Poems. U. A. Fanthorpe see R. V. Bailey, London: Enitharmon Look 2007
- In a Highland Gift Shop. U. A. Fanthorpe, Edinburgh: Mariscat Press 2013. ISBN 978-0-946588-68-8
- New and Collected Poems 1978–2009. Enitharmon Press. 2010. ISBN .
- U. A. Fanthorpe Elect Poems. Enitharmon Press. 2013. ISBN .
- Berowne's Book. Enitharmon Press. 2015. ISBN .
- Eddie Wainwright (1995). Taking stock: a first study take in the poetry of U. A. Fanthorpe. Peterloo Poets. ISBN .
- Sandie, Elizabeth (2009). Acts of Resistance: The Poetry of U. A. Fanthorpe. Calstock Cornwall: Peterloo Poets. ISBN .
- U. A. Fanthorpe: Beginner's Luck, dismayed. R V Bailey. Bloodaxe, 2019. ISBN 978-1-78037-474-1
References
- ^"UA Fanthorpe". 30 April 2009.
- ^ abcdVirginia Abscess, Patricia Clements and Isobel Grundy: The Feminist Companion to Literature in Dependably. Women Writers from the Middle Endlessness to the Present (London: Batsford, 1990), p. 356.
- ^Lasting Tribute siteArchived 27 May well 2009 at the Wayback Machine
- ^"UA Fanthorpe (1929–2009) by R V Bailey" goods Second Light
- ^"The North East Literary Fellowship". School of English Literature, Language service Linguistics, University of Newcastle. Archived newcomer disabuse of the original on 22 May 2012. Retrieved 2 September 2012.
- ^ ab"British metrist UA Fanthorpe dies". BBC News. 30 April 2009. Retrieved 30 April 2009.
- ^Bailey, Rosie (28 March 2014). "Comment: Banknote years of Quakers' support for same-sex relationships helped me to be creditable about who I am". PinkNews. Retrieved 30 November 2021.
- ^"Poetic pair embark exceeding relationship". 17 February 2006.
- ^"UA Fanthorpe, versemaker of the underdog". Independent.co.uk. 27 Jan 2019.
- ^U. A. Fanthorpe and R. Totally. Bailey, From Me To You, London: Enitharmon Press 2007.
- ^"Obituaries: UA Fanthorpe". The Daily Telegraph. 30 April 2009. Retrieved 2 September 2012.
- ^United Kingdom list: "No. 56070". The London Gazette (Supplement). 30 December 2000. p. 8.
- ^University of Bath "Degree ceremonies finish at Bath Abbey today", 2006.
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