Alison Fell

Alison Fell (1944 Dumfries) is a Scottish poet, and novelist.

1 Life
2 Awards
3 Works
4 References
5 External links

Life

Alison Fell graduated from Edinburgh Art College and began writing for Scotland Magazine. She moved to London in 1970, where she co-founded the Woman's Street Theatre Group. An account of the company and Fell's life at this period appears in Michele Roberts's memoir Paper Houses^[1].

She worked at the underground newspaper Ink,^[2] and contributed to Spare Rib.^[3]

In addition to her output of poetry and fiction, she held the School of English and American Studies Writing Fellowship at the University of East Anglia in 1998.^[4]

Awards

1984 Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize
1991 Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature for Mer de Glace
2002-3 Royal Literary Fund Fellowship

Works

Poetry

Smile, Smile, Smile, Smile. Sheba. 1980. ISBN 978-0-907179-03-0.
Kisses for Mayakovsky. Virago. 1984. ISBN 978-0-86068-593-7.
The crystal owl. Methuen Paperback. 1988. ISBN 978-0-413-18810-6.
Dreams, like heretics: new and selected poems. Serpent's Tail. 1997. ISBN 978-1-85242-561-6.

Novels

Title Mer de Glace. Serpent's Tail. 1992. ISBN 978-1-85242-267-7.
The Pillow Boy of the Lady Onogoro. Harcourt Brace. 1996. ISBN 978-0-15-100186-6.
The Mistress of Lilliput. 1999. ISBN 978-1-86230-048-4.
Tricks of the light. Doubleday. 2003. ISBN 978-0-385-60508-3.

Anthology

Licking the Bed Clean: five feminist poets. Teeth imprints. 1978. ISBN 978-0-9506390-0-0.

Editor

Alison Fell, ed (1989). The Seven Deadly Sins. Illustrator Amanda Faulkner. Serpent's Tail. ISBN 978-1-85242-140-3.
Alison Fell, ed (1990). The Seven Cardinal Virtues. Illustrator Grizelda Holderness. Serpent's Tail. ISBN 978-1-85242-169-4.
Serious Hysterics. Serpent's Tail. 1992. ISBN 978-1-85242-222-6.

References

^ Paper Houses by Michele Roberts (Virago, 2007)
^ Nigel Fountain (1988). Underground: the London alternative press, 1966-74. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-0-415-00728-3. http://books.google.com/?id=jiMOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA153&dq=Alison+Fell.
^ Alison Fell (March 1976). "Nights". Spare Rib (Spare Ribs Ltd) (44): 9–11.
^ http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth158

External links

Vicki Bertram, ed (1997). Kicking daffodils: twentieth-century women poets. Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 978-0-7486-0782-2. http://books.google.com/?id=4_4RA3Ngk0kC&pg=PA106&dq=Alison+Fell.

Persondata
Name	Fell, Alison
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	1944
Place of birth
Date of death
Place of death