Molly Holden Explained

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
• Book: To Make Me Grieve. registration. Chatto and Windus. 1968 . 978-0-7011-1413-8.
• Book: Air and Chill Earth. registration. Chatto and Windus. 1971 . 978-0-7011-1831-0.
• The Country Over. Chatto and Windus. 1975.
• Book: Selected poems. Carcanet. 1987. 978-0-85635-696-4 .
• Book: Holden . Molly . English . Andy . Elsted . Crispin . Elsted . Apollonia . Elsted . Jan . Simenson . Alanna . Barbarian Press, Mad Hatter Bookbinding Co . Sudden immobility . Mission, British Columbia . 2021 . 978-0-920971-58-1 . 1296049445 .

Memoirs

• Book: Three Bromsgrove poets . Geoffrey Hill . Molly Holden . Alfred Edward Housman . Housman Society. 2003. 978-0-904579-19-2 .

Anthologies

• Book: New poems: a PEN anthology of contemporary poetry. Patricia Beer. Hutchinson. 1975. 978-0-09-125530-5 .
• Book: Poems since 1900: an anthology of British and American verse in the twentieth century . Colin Falck . Ian Hamilton . Macdonald and Jane's. 1975. 978-0-356-03151-4 .

External links

• "The Poetry of Molly Holden", Roger Alma, Poetry Nation, No 2 - 1974
• Book: American and British verse in the twentieth century: the poetry that matters . Colin Falck. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. 2003. 978-0-7546-3424-9 .
• Book: A history of twentieth-century British women's poetry. registration. 97. Molly Holden poet.. Jane Dowson . Alice Entwistle . Cambridge University Press. 2005. 978-0-521-81946-6 .
• Book: Recent poetry. Critical Quarterly. 21. 2. 75–84. 28 Sep 2007. SIMON Curtis .

Notes and References

1. Web site: Holden, Molly (1927–1981) Encyclopedia.com . 2023-07-28 . www.encyclopedia.com.
2. Book: The Oxford companion to twentieth-century literature in English . registration. 310. Molly Holden poet.. Jenny Stringer, John Sutherland. Oxford University Press. 1996. 978-0-19-212271-1 .
3. Book: Holden , Molly . Molly Holden

   . Selected poems; Poetry Signatures Series. Molly Holden. 1987. Carcanet. University of Michigan. 0856356964. 117.

4. Book: Who's who in twentieth-century world poetry Who's who series . Mark Willhardt . Alan Michael Parker . Andrew Peter Motion . Routledge. 2000. 978-0-415-16356-9 .
5. Book: Title The Cambridge guide to literature in English . Ian Ousby . Doris Lessing . Cambridge University Press. 1993. 978-0-521-44086-8 .