Poetic Obituaries: [UA Fanthorpe] was genuinely fond of

the monarch, too. After receiving the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 2003, she remarked: "You don't think this is an old lady of 80 or whatever she is, she's just somebody who's very good at her job."

She was one of the judges of the Golden Jubilee poetry competition, and in a poem called The Windsors: An Everyday Story of Royal Folk harmlessly evokes their unreal world by conflating it with that of the Archers.

But the predominant theme of her poetry is the cycle of life and death, with particular emphasis on dying.

from Telegraph: UA Fanthorpe
also George Szirtes: Ursula/The Laureateship
also The Associated Press: English poet UA Fanthorpe dies at 79

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