Wendy Mulford

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Wendy Mulford (born 1941)

Marxist elements,[4]
but latterly she has moved towards more personal themes.

Mulford's prose works include a combined biography of Sylvia Townsend Warner and Valentine Ackland, a book about female saints, and essays about poetry.

Writing and teaching

She wrote a biography of Sylvia Townsend Warner and Valentine Ackland (besides providing an introduction to a 1989 reprint of Townsend Warner's 1938 novel After The Death of Don Juan) and co-wrote with Sara Maitland a book on the subject of female saints. Mulford also has used her experience teaching in Cambridge to write a number of critical essays about poetry, saying that women poets are still "too tied to the familiar".[5]

Publishing

Mulford also has been active in the publishing business, founding

Sarah Kirsch, Tom Raworth, John Wilkinson, Stephen Rodefer and Rod Mengham, and was at its peak regarded as a leading outlet for experimental literature that could not be published by mainstream presses. Mulford left the company in 1998,[6]
but her 2009 poetry collection The Land Between was published by the company.

Personal life

Mulford grew up in Wales but moved to

Thames Polytechnic in the early 1980s[8] and then returning to Cambridge. In the 1990s and 2000s she lived in Norfolk and Suffolk
, which inspired her 1998 collection The East Anglia Sequence.

She married fellow poet

Jungian analyst.[11]

Works

Poetry

  • In the Big Red Chair (1975)
  • Bravo to Girls & Heroes (1977)
  • No Fee (with Denise Riley; 1979)
  • Reactions to Sunsets (1980)
  • The Light Sleepers (1980)
  • Some Poems 1968-1978 (with Denise Riley; 1982)
  • The A. B. C. of Writing and Other Poems (1985)
  • Late Spring Next Year: Poems 1979-1985 (1987)
  • The Bay of Naples (1992)
  • The East Anglia Sequence: Norfolk 1984 – Suffolk 1994 (1998)
  • A Handful Of Morning: Poems 1993-1997 (1999)
  • and suddenly, supposing: Selected Poems[12] (2002)
  • The Land Between (2009)

Non-fiction

  • This Narrow Place: Sylvia Townsend Warner and Valentine Ackland 1930-1951 (1988)
  • Virtuous Magic: Women Saints and Their Meanings (with Sara Maitland; 1998)

As editor

  • The Virago Book of Love Poetry (with Helen Kidd, Julia Mishkin and Sandi Russell; 1991)

As translator

  • The Brontes' Hats, by
    Sarah Kirsch
    (1991)
  • T by Sarah Kirsch (1995)

References

  1. ISBN 0-8195-2258-9
  2. ISBN 0-521-81946-6
  3. ^ AFTER FREE VERSE: THE NEW NON-LINEAR POETRIES
  4. ^ Jarvis, Matthew; "Saving the Earth: Wendy Mulford's Salthouse"; in Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, 28 July 2009.
  5. ISBN 0-19-818423-9
  6. ^ History of Reality Street Editions
  7. ^ Dowson and Entwistle; A History of Twentieth-Century British Women's Poetry; p. 160
  8. ISBN 0-416-31150-4
  9. ^ Obituary, Gordon Crosse, British Music Society
  10. ^ Gordon Crosse, song for a cold easter, Composer Edition
  11. ^ Poetry reading
  12. ^ The lowercase in the title is an affectation

External links

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