Elma Mitchell

Elma Mitchell
Elma Mitchell
Born	19 November 1919; Airdrie, Lanarkshire
Died	23 November 2000 (aged 81)
Nationality	British

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]

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.

Maurice Lindsay; Lesley Duncan, eds. (2006). "The Cruxifiction Will Not Take Place". The Edinburgh book of twentieth-century Scottish poetry. Edinburgh University Press. p. 241. ISBN 978-0-7486-2015-9. Elma Mitchell.
U. A. Fanthorpe, Elma Mitchell, Charles Causley (1996). Penguin Modern Poets. Penguin. ISBN 978-0-14-058754-8.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)

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Jane Dowson, Alice Entwistle (2005). A history of twentieth-century British women's poetry. Cambridge University Press. p. 100. ISBN 978-0-521-81946-6. Elma Mitchell.
Ruth Padel (6 June 1999). "THE SUNDAY POEM: No 26 Elma Mitchell". The Independent.

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