Sue Lenier
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| Born | Susan Jennifer Lenier 9 October 1957 Birmingham, England |
| Occupation | Poet and Playwright |
Susan Jennifer Lenier (born 9 October 1957)[1] is an English writer.
Lenier was born in Birmingham, schooled on Tyneside and attended Cambridge University.
Her first published collection of poems, Swansongs [2] was received with tremendous accolades, and was compared favourably with, and in some cases superior to, Shakespeare. [3]
The position of poetry in England has been completely transformed overnight
—John Newton
Better than Ted Hughes
—W.W. Robson
Obviously a much bigger thing than Sylvia Plath
—John Rathmell
After graduating from Cambridge in 1980, she received industry funding to spend a year writing and performing in Germany and the UK, before taking a Harkness Scholarship in the US.
She has also written for the stage.
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