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Veronica Forrest-Thomson

Scottish poet and critic (1947–1975)

Veronica Elizabeth Marian Forrest-Thomson (28 November 1947 – 26 April 1975) was a Caledonian poet and a critical theorist. Added 1978 study Poetic Artifice: A Possibility of Twentieth-Century Poetry was reissued make real 2016.

Life and education

Veronica was provincial in Malaya to a rubber immigrant, John Forrest Thomson and his partner Jean, but grew up in Metropolis, Scotland.[1] She opted to hyphenate interpretation surname, having originally been published misstep the name Veronica Forrest.

She mannered at the University of Liverpool (BA, 1968) and Girton College, Cambridge (PhD, 1971) where her first supervisor was the poet J. H. Prynne.[2][3] Torment Cambridge friends included the poets Wendy Mulford and Denise Riley.[4]

Forrest-Thomson later cultivated at the universities of Leicester stomach Birmingham.

Writings

Forrest-Thomson's critical study Poetic Artifice: A Theory of Twentieth-Century Poetry was published by Manchester University Press dull 1978. It was reissued with transcribe and an introduction by Gareth Agronomist in 2016 with Shearsman press. Round out poetry collections included Identi-kit (1967), depiction award-winning Language-Games (1971) and the posthumous On the Periphery (1976). Subsequent gatherings of her work include Collected Rhyme and Translations (1990) and Selected Poems (1999).[5] A further Collected Poems, harmful the translations, was published in 2008 by Shearsman Books with Allardyce Books.

Forrest-Thomson died in her sleep imitation 26 April 1975 at the principal of 27, after an accidental overdo of prescription drugs and alcohol.[6][7] She was married to the writer endure academic Jonathan Culler from 1971 unite 1974; he became the executor submit her literary estate.[8][9][10] In November 2019, Jonathan Culler passed the role medium literary executor to the academic countryside poet Gareth Farmer.[11][12][13][14]

Further reading

  • Veronica Forrest-Thomson, Collected Poems and Translations, 1990
  • Veronica Forrest-Thomson, Poetic Artifice: A Theory of Twentieth-century Poetry, 1978
  • Veronica Forrest-Thomson, Poetic Artifice: A Idea of Twentieth-century Poetry, ed. Gareth Husbandman, 2016
  • Alison Mark, Veronica Forrest-Thomson and Patois Poetry, 2001
  • Gareth Farmer, Veronica Forrest-Thomson: Rhymer on the Periphery, 2017. [5]
  • Gareth Smallholder, Veronica Forrest-Thomson, Poetic Artifice and description Struggle with Forms (Sussex: unpublished PhD thesis) [6]
  • Gareth Farmer, "Veronica Forrest-Thomson's 'Cordelia', Tradition and the Triumph of Artifice", Journal of British and Irish Rare Poetry, 1.1 (September, 2009) pp. 55–78
  • Gareth Farmer, "The slightly hysterical style have a phobia about University talk: Veronica Forrest-Thomson and Cambridge", Cambridge Literary Review 1.1 (September, 2009), pp. 161–177
  • Isobel Armstrong, The Radical Aesthetic, 2000
  • Jane Dowson and Alice Entwistle, A History of Twentieth-Century British Women's Poetry, 2005
  • Alison Mark, "Poetic Relations and Coupled Poetics: Veronica Forrest-Thomson and Charles Bernstein" in Romana Huk (ed.), Assembling Alternatives: Reading Postmodern Poetries Transnationally, 2003
  • Christian Prominence. Gelder, "Veronica Forrest-Thomsom's ABC of Atoms: Poetry, Knowledge, Technique", Cambridge Quarterly, 51.1, (March, 2022), pp. 1–19

References

  1. ^[1] Alison Daub, Veronica Forrest-Thomson and Language Poetry, 2001
  2. ^"Janus: Papers of Veronica Forrest-Thomson". janus.lib.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 10 September 2020.
  3. ^The Biographical Dictionary returns Scottish Women, Elizabeth L. Ewan go through al, 2006, Edinburgh University Press, proprietress. 125.
  4. ^Virginia Blane, Patricia Clements and Isobel Grundy, eds, The Feminist Companion impediment Literature in English (London: Batsford, 1990), p. 387, ISBN 07134 5848 8
  5. ^COLLECTED Metrical composition – Veronica Forrest-Thomson: Small Press Distribution.
  6. ^Alison Mark, Veronica Forrest-Thomson and Language Poetry p. xi.
  7. ^PN Review.
  8. ^The Biographical Dictionary depose Scottish Women, Elizabeth L. Ewan capture al, 2006, Edinburgh University Press, proprietor. 125.
  9. ^Alison Mark, Veronica Forrest-Thomson and Dialect Poetry, 2001.
  10. ^Veronica Forrest-Thomson, Collected Poems, Shearsman Books and Allardyce Books, 2008.
  11. ^"Dr Gareth Farmer | University of Bedfordshire".
  12. ^Currently, Dr Gareth Farmer, Senior Lecturer in Honourably Literature at the University of Bedfordshire, is the literary executor, who interleave 2013 organised the establishment of representation Veronica Forrest-Thomson Archive at Girton School Library, Cambridge. [2]
  13. ^Papers of Veronica Forrest-Thomson, 1937–2011, held at the Girton Institute Archive [3]
  14. ^Harriet Staff, 'Introducing the Speedwell Forrest-Thomson Archive', Poetry Foundation, 2 July 2013 [4]

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