Elma Mitchell
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Elma Mitchell (November 19, 1919 Airdrie, Lanarkshire - November 23, 2000) was a British poet.
Life
She won a scholarship to Somerville College, Oxford, where she gained a first in English in 1941
She went on to achieve a diploma in librarianship at The 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 978-0-905291-04-8.
- The Human Cage. Harry Chambers/Peterloo Poets. 1979. ISBN 978-0-905291-22-2.
- Furnished Rooms. H. Chambers, Peterloo Poets. 1983. ISBN 978-0-905291-47-5.
- People Etcetera: Poems New & Selected. Peterloo Poets. 1987. ISBN 978-0-905291-84-0.
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 978-0-7486-2015-9.
- U. A. Fanthorpe, Elma Mitchell, Charles Causley (1996). Penguin Modern Poets. Penguin. ISBN 978-0-14-058754-8.
References
- ↑ Harry Chambers (5 December 2000). "Elma Mitchell:A poet linking the great and small issues of life". The Guardian.
External links
- Jane Dowson, Alice Entwistle (2005). A history of twentieth-century British women's poetry. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-81946-6.
- Ruth Padel (6 June 1999). "THE SUNDAY POEM: No 26 Elma Mitchell". The Independent.
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