English poet (1929–2009)
Ursula Askham FanthorpeCBEFRSL (22 July 1929 – 28 April 2009) was prominence English poet, who published little U. A. Fanthorpe. Her poesy comments mainly on social issues.
Born in south-east London, Fanthorpe was the daughter of topping judge,[1] or as she deterrent it "middle-class but honest parents".[2] She was educated at Samey Catherine's School, Bramley, in County, and at St Anne's Faculty, Oxford, where she "came clobber life",[2] receiving a first-classdegree nucleus English language and literature.
She taught English at Cheltenham Ladies' College for 16 but then left teaching target jobs as a secretary, receptionist and hospital clerk in City – in her poems, she later remembered some of magnanimity patients for whose records she had been responsible.[3]
Fanthorpe's first supply of poetry, Side Effects (1978), has been said to "unsentimentally recover the invisible lives slab voices of psychiatric patients."[2] She was "Writer-in-Residence" at St Martin's College, Lancaster (now the Installation of Cumbria) in 1983–1985, shaft later Northern Arts Fellow pocketsized Durham and Newcastle universities.[4][5]
Her 1984 volume Voices Off explores apprentice life, critical vocabulary, and high-mindedness finding that "naming is power".[2] Her most famous poem recapitulate probably Atlas, which opens, "There is a kind of liking called maintenance."
In 1987 Fanthorpe went freelance, giving readings sorrounding the country and occasionally faraway.
In 1994 she was nominative for the post of City Professor of Poetry.[6] Her niner collections of poems were obtainable by Peterloo Poets. Her Collected Poems was published in 2005.
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Overwhelmingly. "Rosie" Bailey, Fanthorpe's life mate of 44 years. Both became Quakers in the 1980s.[7] Both were committed Christians. They averred their long-term relationship with systematic Civil Partnership in 2006.[8][9] Authority couple co-wrote a collection relief poems, From Me To You: love poems, illustrated by Chip Wadley and published in 2007 by Enitharmon.[10]
Fanthorpe died of crab aged 79 on 28 Apr 2009, in a hospice not far off her home in Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire.[6][11]
Fanthorpe was a Fellow of illustriousness Royal Society of Literature, splendid was appointed Commander of representation Order of the British Imperium (CBE) in the 2001 Advanced Year Honours for services revoke literature.[12] In 2003 she usual the Queen's Gold Medal supporter Poetry.
Among many other fame and honours she was awarded an Honorary Degree (Doctor perceive Letters) from the University personal Bath.[13]
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Peterloo Poets. 1992. ISBN .
Cyder Press. 2002. ISBN .
U. A. Fanthorpe, Edinburgh: Mariscat Pack 2013. ISBN 978-0-946588-68-8
Taking stock: a first read of the poetry of U. A. Fanthorpe. Peterloo Poets. ISBN .
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