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          UA Fanthorpe, who has died aged 79, reached the threshold of her 50th year before she published a remarkable first collection of poems..

          U. A. Fanthorpe

          English poet (1929–2009)

          Ursula Askham FanthorpeCBEFRSL (22 July 1929 – 28 April 2009) was an English poet, who published as U.

          Interview with UA FANTHORPE (born 29 July April ), British poet.

        1. Her skill and emotional intelligence transformed women's poetry in Britain.
        2. UA Fanthorpe, who has died aged 79, reached the threshold of her 50th year before she published a remarkable first collection of poems.
        3. Fanthorpe was one of the most popular poets in Britain, appearing on the A-Level syllabus, even having a Selected Poems from Penguin – although.
        4. UA Fanthorpe, poet of the critics and public alike, dies aged 79 Awarded the Queen's gold medal for poetry, only the fifth woman in 70 years.

          5. A. Fanthorpe. Her poetry comments mainly on social issues.

          Life and work

          Early years and education

          Born in south-east London, Fanthorpe was the daughter of a judge,[1] or as she put it "middle-class but honest parents".[2] She was educated at St Catherine's School, Bramley, in Surrey, and at St Anne's College, Oxford, where she "came to life",[2] receiving a first-classdegree in English language and literature.

          Working life

          She taught English at Cheltenham Ladies' College for 16 years, but then left teaching for jobs as a secretary, receptionist and hospital clerk in Bristol – in her poems, she later remembered some of the patients for whose records she had been responsible.[3]

          Fanthorpe's first volume of poetry, Side Effects (1978), has been said to "unsentimentally recover the