Molly Holden
Molly Winifred Holden (7 September 1927 in London – 1981) was a British poet.
Biography
Holden grew up in Surrey, and Wiltshire.[1] She graduated from King's College London in 1951. Her maiden name was Gilbert. She was the granddaughter of the popular children's author Henry Gilbert.[2]
She suffered from Multiple Sclerosis.[3][4]
Awards
- 1972 Cholmondeley Award
Works
- A Hill Like a Horse, 1963
- Bright Cloud, 1964
- To Make Me Grieve. Chatto and Windus. 1968.
- Air and Chill Earth. Chatto and Windus. 1971.
- Selected poems. Carcanet. 1987. ISBN 978-0-85635-696-4.
Memoirs
- Geoffrey Hill; Molly Holden; Alfred Edward Housman (2003). Three Bromsgrove poets. Housman Society. ISBN 978-0-904579-19-2.
Anthologies
- Patricia Beer, ed. (1975). New poems: a PEN anthology of contemporary poetry. Hutchinson. ISBN 978-0-09-125530-5.
- Colin Falck; Ian Hamilton, eds. (1975). Poems since 1900: an anthology of British and American verse in the twentieth century. Macdonald and Jane's. ISBN 978-0-356-03151-4.
References
- ^ Jenny Stringer, John Sutherland, ed. (1996). The Oxford companion to twentieth-century literature in English. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-212271-1.
- ^ Holden, Molly (1987). Selected poems; Poetry Signatures Series. University of Michigan: Carcanet. p. 117. ISBN 0856356964.
- ^ Mark Willhardt; Alan Michael Parker; Andrew Peter Motion, eds. (2000). Who's who in twentieth-century world poetry Who's who series. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-16356-9.
- ^ Ian Ousby; Doris Lessing, eds. (1993). Title The Cambridge guide to literature in English. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-44086-8.
External links
- "The Poetry of Molly Holden", Roger Alma, Poetry Nation, No 2 - 1974
- Colin Falck (2003). American and British verse in the twentieth century: the poetry that matters. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. ISBN 978-0-7546-3424-9.
- Jane Dowson; Alice Entwistle (2005). A history of twentieth-century British women's poetry. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-81946-6.
- SIMON Curtis (28 Sep 2007). Recent poetry. Vol. 21. pp. 75–84.
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