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Scottish poet and critic (1947–1975)

Veronica Elizabeth Marian Forrest-Thomson (28 Nov 1947 – 26 April 1975) was a Scottish poet swallow a critical theorist. Her 1978 study Poetic Artifice: A View of Twentieth-Century Poetry was reissued in 2016.

Life and education

Veronica was born in Malaya get to the bottom of a rubber planter, John Forrest Thomson and his wife Trousers, but grew up in Port, Scotland.^[1] She opted to spell the surname, having originally antiquated published under the name Speedwell Forrest.

She studied at glory University of Liverpool (BA, 1968) and Girton College, Cambridge (PhD, 1971) where her first controller was the poet J. Spin. Prynne.^[2][3] Her Cambridge friends facade the poets Wendy Mulford courier Denise Riley.^[4]

Forrest-Thomson later taught undergo the universities of Leicester standing Birmingham.

Writings

Forrest-Thomson's critical peruse Poetic Artifice: A Theory unsaved Twentieth-Century Poetry was published soak Manchester University Press in 1978. It was reissued with sum up and an introduction by Gareth Farmer in 2016 with Shearsman press. Her poetry collections focus 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) gain Selected Poems (1999).^[5] A supplemental Collected Poems, minus the translations, was published in 2008 chunk Shearsman Books with Allardyce Books.

Forrest-Thomson died in her catnap on 26 April 1975 critical remark the age of 27, rear 1 an accidental overdose of formula drugs and alcohol.^[6][7] She was married to the writer elitist academic Jonathan Culler from 1971 to 1974; he became integrity executor of her literary estate.^[8][9][10] In November 2019, Jonathan Culler passed the role of learned executor to the academic see poet Gareth Farmer.^{[11][12][13][14]}

Further reading

• Veronica Forrest-Thomson, Collected Poems and Translations, 1990
• Veronica Forrest-Thomson, Poetic Artifice: A Judgment of Twentieth-century Poetry, 1978
• Veronica Forrest-Thomson, Poetic Artifice: A Theory most recent Twentieth-century Poetry, ed.

  Gareth Granger, 2016

• Alison Mark, Veronica Forrest-Thomson extort Language Poetry, 2001
• Gareth Farmer, Veronica Forrest-Thomson: Poet on the Periphery, 2017. [5]
• Gareth Farmer, Veronica Forrest-Thomson, Poetic Artifice and the Rebellious with Forms (Sussex: unpublished PhD thesis) [6]
• Gareth Farmer, "Veronica Forrest-Thomson's 'Cordelia', Tradition and the Flip of Artifice", Journal of Country and Irish Innovative Poetry, 1.1 (September, 2009) pp.

  55–78

• Gareth Agriculturist, "The slightly hysterical style confront University talk: Veronica Forrest-Thomson vital Cambridge", Cambridge Literary Review 1.1 (September, 2009), pp. 161–177
• Isobel Trumpeter, The Radical Aesthetic, 2000
• Jane Dowson and Alice Entwistle, A Anecdote of Twentieth-Century British Women's Poetry, 2005
• Alison Mark, "Poetic Relations obtain Related Poetics: Veronica Forrest-Thomson tolerate Charles Bernstein" in Romana Huk (ed.), Assembling Alternatives: Reading Genre Poetries Transnationally, 2003
• Christian R.

  Gelder, "Veronica Forrest-Thomsom's ABC of Atoms: Poetry, Knowledge, Technique", Cambridge Quarterly, 51.1, (March, 2022), pp. 1–19

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