Alison Fell

Alison Fell
Born	1944 Dumfries
Alma mater	Edinburgh College of Art, Dumfries Academy
Occupation	Poet, novelist, journalist, children's writer

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

Life

Born in Dumfries, Scotland, Alison Fell was educated at Dumfries Academy and Edinburgh Art College, from where she graduated as a sculptor.^[1] She began writing for Scotland Magazine in 1962 and in 1970 she moved to London, where she co-founded the Woman's Street Theatre Group.^[1] An account of the company and Fell's life at this period appears in Michèle Roberts's memoir Paper Houses.^[2]

She worked at the underground newspaper Ink,^[3] and contributed to Spare Rib.^[4]

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.^[1]

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.
August 6, 1945.

Novels

The Grey Dancer. Collins. 1981. ISBN 978-0-00184-267-0.
Every Move You Make. Virago. 1984. ISBN 978-0-86068-585-2.
The Bad Box. Virago. 1987. ISBN 978-0-86068-497-8.
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.
The Element -Inth in Greek. Sandstone Press Ltd. 2012. ISBN 978-1-90-873702-1.

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

1 2 3 Alison Fell page at British Council Literature.
↑ Michèle Roberts, Paper Houses: A Memoir of the 70s and Beyond, 2007, Virago, ISBN 978-1844084074; paperback 2008, ISBN 978-1844084081.
↑ Nigel Fountain (1988). Underground: the London alternative press, 1966-74. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-0-415-00728-3.
↑ Alison Fell (March 1976). "Nights". Spare Rib. Spare Ribs Ltd (44): 9–11.

External links

Vicki Bertram, ed. (1997). Kicking Daffodils: Twentieth-Century Women Poets. Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 978-0-7486-0782-2.

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 29587510 LCCN: n80063881 ISNI: 0000 0000 6305 2298 SUDOC: 031037119 BNF: cb12233254m (data)

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