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Collected Poems and Translations
includes tr from French of Tel Quel group
288 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1990
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Veronica Forrest-Thomson
10 books8 followersVeronica Elizabeth Marian Forrest-Thomson was a poet and a critical theorist brought up in Scotland. Her 1978 study Poetic Artifice: A Theory of Twentieth-Century Poetry was reissued in 2016.
Veronica was born in Malaya to a rubber planter, John Forrest Thomson and his wife Jean, but grew up in Glasgow, Scotland. She opted to hyphenate the surname, having originally been published under the name Veronica Forrest.
She studied at the University of Liverpool (BA, 1967) and Girton College, Cambridge (PhD, 1971) where her first supervisor was the poet J.H. Prynne. Her Cambridge friends included the poets Wendy Mulford and Denise Riley.
Forrest-Thomson later taught at the universities of Leicester and Birmingham.
Her poetry collections included Identi-kit (1967), the award-winning Language-Games (1971) and the posthumous On the Periphery (1976). Subsequent gatherings of her work include Collected Poems and Translations (1990) and Selected Poems (1999). A further Collected Poems, minus the translations, was published in 2008 by Shearsman Books with Allardyce Books.
Forrest-Thomson was married to the writer and academic Jonathan Culler from 1971 to 1974. She died in her sleep on 26 April 1975 at the age of 27, after an accidental overdose of prescription drugs and alcohol.
Veronica was born in Malaya to a rubber planter, John Forrest Thomson and his wife Jean, but grew up in Glasgow, Scotland. She opted to hyphenate the surname, having originally been published under the name Veronica Forrest.
She studied at the University of Liverpool (BA, 1967) and Girton College, Cambridge (PhD, 1971) where her first supervisor was the poet J.H. Prynne. Her Cambridge friends included the poets Wendy Mulford and Denise Riley.
Forrest-Thomson later taught at the universities of Leicester and Birmingham.
Her poetry collections included Identi-kit (1967), the award-winning Language-Games (1971) and the posthumous On the Periphery (1976). Subsequent gatherings of her work include Collected Poems and Translations (1990) and Selected Poems (1999). A further Collected Poems, minus the translations, was published in 2008 by Shearsman Books with Allardyce Books.
Forrest-Thomson was married to the writer and academic Jonathan Culler from 1971 to 1974. She died in her sleep on 26 April 1975 at the age of 27, after an accidental overdose of prescription drugs and alcohol.
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December 19, 2009
I've returned to these poems over and over for twenty years now, trying to divine the source of the -for want of a better phrase- mysterious integrity the best of them seem to possess. I'm pleased to state that I've drawn no conclusions.
August 19, 2008
This is brilliant work. I learned to apply an ear to merciless theft.
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