Tuesday, March 15, 2011

News at Eleven: A series of unknown poems by the novelist

and subversive essayist Angela Carter, discovered at her former London home, have revealed a previously unknown passion that casts new light on her development as a novelist.

Carter, who died of lung cancer at the age of 51 in 1992, was one of Britain's most celebrated authors and remains a leading voice in feminist fiction, but her poetry has never been professionally published or widely studied. In the 1970s and 1980s she was at the forefront of fabulist or magical narrative work.

from The Guardian: Angela Carter's unknown poems reveal the celebrated writer's passion for verse

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