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Silcock, Ruth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0856463833 ISBN 13: 9780856463839

Publisher: Anvil Press Poetry, 2006

Synopsis

Ruth Silcock's third collection continues in cheerful vein about often less than cheerful subjects. She has the knack of combining jaunty traditional forms with sometimes startling or even grim subject matter. Her poems focus on the lives of ordinary people - children, vicars, orphans, nurses, grannies, social workers at a dance, old people in residential homes - and she treats their stories with compassion and humour. Born in Manchester in 1926, Ruth Silcock read English at Girton College, Cambridge, and later became a psychiatric social worker, working with both adults and children. She has published several children's books. Her previous collections of poems Mrs. Carmichael' (1987) and A Wonderful View of the Sea' (1996) were also published by Anvil. A successful radio play, 46 Nursing Homes', was based on a sequence of her poems. 

About this title

About the Author:

Born in Manchester in 1926, Ruth Silcock read English at Girton College, Cambridge, and later became a social worker. She lives in Oxfordshire and has published several children's books. Anvil also published her previous collections, "Mrs. Carmichael" (1987) and "A Wonderful View of the Sea" (1996). A successful play, "46 Nursing Homes," was based on a sequence of her poems.

Review:

'There is a potentially popular poetry in England which does not talk down to people or appeal to their self-consciousness, and it is being written by people like Ruth Silcock. Larkin, Betjeman and Stevie Smith would have approved of her poems.'George Szirtes

About this edition

• Publisher: Anvil Press Poetry
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0856463833
• ISBN 13: 9780856463839
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96