Elma Mitchell

Elma Mitchell (November 19, 1919 Airdrie, Lanarkshire - November 23, 2000) is a British poet.

Contents 1 Life 2 Awards 3 Works 3.1 Anthologies 4 References 5 External links

Life

She won a scholarship to Somerville College, Oxford, where she took a first in English in 1941.

She went on to take a diploma in librarianship at University College London

She worked as a librarian and information officer for the BBC (1941–43).

She moved to the Buckland St Mary, Somerset, and worked as a freelance writer.^[1]

Awards

• 1977 Cheltenham Festival Poetry Competition
• 1999 Cholmondeley Award

Works

• The Poor Man In The Flesh. Harry Chambers/Peterloo Poets. 1976. ISBN 9780905291048. 
• The Human Cage. Harry Chambers/Peterloo Poets. 1979. ISBN 9780905291222. 
• Furnished Rooms. H. Chambers, Peterloo Poets. 1983. ISBN 9780905291475. 
• People Etcetera: Poems New & Selected. Peterloo Poets. 1987. ISBN 9780905291840. 

Anthologies

• Maurice Lindsay, Lesley Duncan, ed (2006). "The Cruxifiction Will Not Take Place". The Edinburgh book of twentieth-century Scottish poetry. Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 9780748620159. http://books.google.com/books?id=ap6LTaZwrBQC&pg=PA241&dq=Elma+Mitchell. 
• U. A. Fanthorpe, Elma Mitchell, Charles Causley (1996). Penguin Modern Poets. Penguin. ISBN 9780140587548. 

References

External links

• Jane Dowson, Alice Entwistle (2005). A history of twentieth-century British women's poetry. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521819466. http://books.google.com/books?id=JMtqyxmo5j8C&pg=PA100&lpg=PA100&dq=Elma+Mitchell&source=bl&ots=wEuoZTypRy&sig=TrPYcjNDuzniCEM2mf0l_zC660k&hl=en&ei=sK9bSpbmG4G6NYPMyEI&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5. 
• Ruth Padel (6 June 1999). "THE SUNDAY POEM: No 26 Elma Mitchell". The Independent. http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/the-sunday-poem-1098514.html. 

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Name	Mitchell, Elma
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Date of birth	November 19, 1919
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Date of death	November 23, 2000
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