a literary foremother, for several generations of women poets. Perhaps this was an irony for a writer who escaped the life of a teacher--she was head of English at Cheltenham Ladies' College--because she wanted growth and change of her own. Yet she brought me, for one, back to poetry after bad experiences at school, when I heard her read at the last Albert Hall Poetry Live in the late 1980s.from Fiona Sampson: The Guardian: UA Fanthorpe inspired generations of women poets
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