Molly Holden

Molly Winifred Holden (7 September 1927 in London – 1981) was a British poet.

Biography

Holden grew up in Surrey, and Wiltshire.[1] She graduated from King's College London in 1951. Her maiden name was Gilbert. She was the granddaughter of the popular children's author Henry Gilbert.[2]

She suffered from multiple sclerosis.[3][4]

Awards

1972 Cholmondeley Award

Works

A Hill Like a Horse, 1963
Bright Cloud, 1964
To Make Me Grieve. Chatto and Windus. 1968.
Air and Chill Earth. Chatto and Windus. 1971.
The Country Over. Chatto and Windus. 1975.
Selected poems. Carcanet. 1987. ISBN 978-0-85635-696-4.

Memoirs

Geoffrey Hill; Molly Holden; Alfred Edward Housman (2003). Three Bromsgrove poets. Housman Society. ISBN 978-0-904579-19-2.

Anthologies

Patricia Beer, ed. (1975). New poems: a PEN anthology of contemporary poetry. Hutchinson. ISBN 978-0-09-125530-5.
Colin Falck; Ian Hamilton, eds. (1975). Poems since 1900: an anthology of British and American verse in the twentieth century. Macdonald and Jane's. ISBN 978-0-356-03151-4.

gollark: Hold on, I have *something* on this in history maybe.

gollark: Nope.

gollark: At high concentrations it impairs cognition and such.

gollark: Contrary to gnobody belief, it sort of is.

gollark: I *might*, although I probably wouldn't want to continue living literally forever even when the universe has no more harvestable energy (assuming this happens).

References

Jenny Stringer, John Sutherland, ed. (1996). The Oxford companion to twentieth-century literature in English. Oxford University Press. p. 310. ISBN 978-0-19-212271-1. Molly Holden poet.
Holden, Molly (1987). Selected poems; Poetry Signatures Series. University of Michigan: Carcanet. p. 117. ISBN 0856356964.
Mark Willhardt; Alan Michael Parker; Andrew Peter Motion, eds. (2000). Who's who in twentieth-century world poetry Who's who series. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-16356-9.
Ian Ousby; Doris Lessing, eds. (1993). Title The Cambridge guide to literature in English. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-44086-8.

External links

"The Poetry of Molly Holden", Roger Alma, Poetry Nation, No 2 - 1974
Colin Falck (2003). American and British verse in the twentieth century: the poetry that matters. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. ISBN 978-0-7546-3424-9.
Jane Dowson; Alice Entwistle (2005). A history of twentieth-century British women's poetry. Cambridge University Press. p. 97. ISBN 978-0-521-81946-6. Molly Holden poet.
SIMON Curtis (28 September 2007). Recent poetry. Critical Quarterly. 21. pp. 75–84.

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[1] Jenny Stringer, John Sutherland, ed. (1996). The Oxford companion to twentieth-century literature in English. Oxford University Press. p. 310. ISBN 978-0-19-212271-1. Molly Holden poet.

[Holden-2] Holden, Molly (1987). Selected poems; Poetry Signatures Series. University of Michigan: Carcanet. p. 117. ISBN 0856356964.

[3] Mark Willhardt; Alan Michael Parker; Andrew Peter Motion, eds. (2000). Who's who in twentieth-century world poetry Who's who series. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-16356-9.

[4] Ian Ousby; Doris Lessing, eds. (1993). Title The Cambridge guide to literature in English. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-44086-8.