Molly Holden
Molly Winifred Holden (7 September 1927 in London – 5 August 1981) was a British poet.[1]
Biography
Holden grew up in Surrey, and Wiltshire.[2] She graduated from King's College London in 1951. Her maiden name was Gilbert. She was the granddaughter of the popular children's author Henry Gilbert.[3]
She suffered from multiple sclerosis.[4][5]
Awards
- 1972 Cholmondeley Award
Works
- A Hill Like a Horse, 1963
- Bright Cloud, 1964
- To Make Me Grieve. Chatto and Windus. 1968.
- Air and Chill Earth. Chatto and Windus. 1971.
- The Country Over. Chatto and Windus. 1975.
- Selected poems. Carcanet. 1987. ISBN 978-0-85635-696-4.
- Holden, Molly; English, Andy; Elsted, Crispin; Elsted, Apollonia; Elsted, Jan; Simenson, Alanna (2021). Sudden immobility. Mission, British Columbia: Barbarian Press, Mad Hatter Bookbinding Co. OCLC 1296049445.
Memoirs
- Geoffrey Hill; Molly Holden; Alfred Edward Housman (2003). Three Bromsgrove poets. Housman Society. ISBN 978-0-904579-19-2.
Anthologies
- Patricia Beer, ed. (1975). New poems: a PEN anthology of contemporary poetry. Hutchinson. ISBN 978-0-09-125530-5.
- Colin Falck; Ian Hamilton, eds. (1975). Poems since 1900: an anthology of British and American verse in the twentieth century. Macdonald and Jane's. ISBN 978-0-356-03151-4.
References
- ^ "Holden, Molly (1927–1981) | Encyclopedia.com". www.encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 28 July 2023.
- ISBN 978-0-19-212271-1.
Molly Holden poet.
- ISBN 0856356964.
- ISBN 978-0-415-16356-9.
- ISBN 978-0-521-44086-8.
External links
- "The Poetry of Molly Holden", Roger Alma, Poetry Nation, No 2 - 1974
- Colin Falck (2003). American and British verse in the twentieth century: the poetry that matters. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. ISBN 978-0-7546-3424-9.
- Jane Dowson; Alice Entwistle (2005). A history of twentieth-century British women's poetry. Cambridge University Press. p. 97. ISBN 978-0-521-81946-6.
Molly Holden poet.
- SIMON Curtis (28 September 2007). Recent poetry. Vol. 21. pp. 75–84.
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