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Two Women Dancing
Elizabeth Bartlett
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Description for Two Women Dancing
Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 13. Weight in Grams: 344.
Elizabeth Bartlett's powerfully evocative poems are remarkable for their painfully truthful insights into people's lives. Born in 1924, she worked for many years in the Health Service. For Peter Forbes, she is poetry's chronicler of today's 'damaged Britain'... 'She writes about people in extreme states, some of which she has experienced herself...'
Elizabeth Bartlett's powerfully evocative poems are remarkable for their painfully truthful insights into people's lives. Born in 1924, she worked for many years in the Health Service. For Peter Forbes, she is poetry's chronicler of today's 'damaged Britain'... 'She writes about people in extreme states, some of which she has experienced herself...'
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781852242978
SKU
V9781852242978
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99-15
About Elizabeth Bartlett
Elizabeth Bartlett (1924-2008) was born in Deal, in the mining region of Kent. She left school at 15 shortly before the start of the Second World War, to start work in a factory making hypodermic needles. Married during the War, she helped support her family with various jobs, working for 16 years as a medical secretary, and later in ... Read more
Reviews for Two Women Dancing
She fills her poems with ordinary, awkward lives and voices, fleshing out her casebook with a deftness that is only apparently offhand, unshockable. The emotional payload is in fact often dizzying.
Carol Rumens
Poetry Review
A kind of weird cross between Anne Sexton and Philip Larkin, Bartlett has more to say about a pitiful Britain over the ... Read more
Carol Rumens
Poetry Review
A kind of weird cross between Anne Sexton and Philip Larkin, Bartlett has more to say about a pitiful Britain over the ... Read more