Parents - Softcover

Myra Schneider spent most of her childhood on the Firth of Clyde, lived in Chichester during her teens and has lived in London since she went to University. She is the author of four poetry collections by Littlewood Press, three novels for children and teenagers by Heinemann and six collections by Enitharmon Press: Exits (1994), The Panic Bird (1998), Insisting on Yellow (2000), Multiplying The Moon (2004), Circling The Core (2008) and The Door to Colour (2014). Her poem Goulash’ from this book was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem, 2007. Second Light Publications published her long narrative poem, Becoming in 2007. Writing for Self-Discovery co-written with John Killick was published by Element Books in 1997. Writing My Way Through Cancer, her fleshed-out diary with poem notes, poems and therapeutic writing ideas was published by Jessica Kingsley in 2003. Writing Your Self, a resource book of personal writing co-written with John Killick was published by Continuum International in 2009. Myra has co-edited four anthologies of poetry by contemporary women poets. She is an experienced writing tutor and works as a core tutor for The Poetry School. She is consultant to the Second Light Network of women poets. She taught literacy and communication to severely disabled adults at a day centre for many years. U. A. Fanthorpe (1929-2009) was born in Kent and read English at St Anne’s College, Oxford, before training as a teacher. She was Head of English at Cheltenham Ladies’ College, and then became a middle-aged drop-out in order to write’, publishing her first collection, Side Effects, in 1978. Her eight volumes of poetry were all published by Peterloo, and her Selected Poems was published by Penguin in 1986. Enitharmon Press publish her Christmas Poems and From Me to You, love poems by Fanthorpe and R. V. Bailey. In 1994 U. A. Fanthorpe was the first woman to be nominated for the post of Professor of Poetry at Oxford. She was awarded the CBE in 2001 and the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 2003, when her Collected Poems were published. In 2010 Enitharmon published her definitive volume New and Collected Poems which features a preface by The Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy.

To My Mother by Anna Adams
My Exorcist Mother by Patricia Adelman
Throwing Out My Father's Dictionary by Moniza Alvi
Old Stone Age by Frances Angela
Father's Things by R. V. Bailey
Broken Necklace by Jill Bamber
Sorting Things Out by Wanda Barford
Finding by Celia Barry
God Is Dead -- Nietzsche by Elizabeth (1924-) Bartlett
Smile For Daddy by Elizabeth (1924-) Bartlett
Confrontation With A Bouquet by Maggie Bevan
Woman Washing by Patricia Bishop
Little Red Riding Hood And The Wolf by Gillie Bolton
End Of The Row by Anne Born
Forest by Priscilla Borthwick
Out Of Bounds by Priscilla Borthwick
Natural High by Jean Binta Breeze
Cockatoo by Pam Bridgeman
In The Room I by Jacqueline Brown
That Rank Bed by Nadine Brummer
'why Is This Night Different From All Other Nights?' by Nadine Brummer
A Time Of Cherries by Suzanne Burrows
Minding You by Catherine Byron
Easter Outing by Sally Carr
Laughing All The Way by Liz Cashdan
One Flesh by Julia Casterton
Contact by Alison Chisholm
The Tale Of Me by Eilean Ni Chuilleanain
Mushrooms by Moira Clark
Migraine by Gillian Clarke
'poems Of Memory,' Sels by Anne Alice Andree Cluysenaar
The Last Apple by Carol Coiffait
Ithaca-liverpool by Gladys Mary Coles
Either Way by Tricia Corob
Beachy Head by Hilary Davies
Crab by Angela Dove
The Pyrenees by Jane Duran
Spanish Peasant Boy by Jane Duran
At The South Pole by Jean Earle
Fanfare, Fr. Stations Underground by Ursala Fanthorpe
Dad by Elaine Feinstein
Matching Flowers by Kate Foley
My Father, Counting Sheep by Kate Foley
Remission by Katharine Frost
Winners by Katharine Frost
My Father's Dreams by Cynthia Fuller
Upturn by Anne-marie Fyfe
The Colour Of The Old Man's Eyes by Judy Gahagan
Distances by Katherine Gallagher
Vigil by Blair Gibb
Looking North by Pamela Gillilan
The Mistress by Pamela Gillilan
Shipping The Pictures From Belfast by Pamela Gillilan
My Father Makes A Lightbox For Vivienne Westwood by Nicolette Golding
Wardrobes by Nicolette Golding
Love by Joan Gordon
Alice's Cat, New Year's Eve 1990 by Anne Grimes
Searching by Cathy Grindrod
My Father's Words by Lucy Hamilton
The Therapist's Comment by Jenny Hamlett
Meeting Place by Pauline Hawkesworth
Two Statues by Pauline Hawkesworth
Dilemma by Phoebe Hesketh
Durer's 'young Hare' by Norah Hill
Caustic Soda by Liz Houghton
Saturday With Dad by Liz Houghton
Letter by Sue Hubbard
The Woman Who Mistook Her Father For An Irishman by Nicki Jackowska
Anyway by Barbara Jagger
Cracking Walnuts by Maria Jastrzebska
One Flesh by Elizabeth Jennings
The Pulse by Martha Kapos
Phoenix by Elizabeth Kay
The Telling Part by Jackie Kay
Midwife by Judith Kazantzis
My Dada by Judith Kazantzis
Baba Mostafa by Mimi Khalvati
Coma by Mimi Khalvati
'entries On Light,' Sels by Mimi Khalvati
Love Letters by Lotte Kramer
The Non-emigrant (my Father In Nazi Germany) by Lotte Kramer
On Shutting The Door by Lotte Kramer
My Mother Dressed For The Wedding by Stevie Krayer
The Hit Man by Philippa Lawrence
Stepmother by Dinah Livingstone
Christmas Present For My Mother by Sue Macintyre
Letters From The Concertina File by Sue Macintyre
Papa by Barbara Marsh
Make Believe by Gerda Mayer
Rings by Joan Michelson
Connecting Light by Susan Michie
Mother, Dear Mother by Elma Mitchell
Handnotes by Lyn Moir
I Do Not Want The Ceiling Of The Sistine Chapel by Felicity Napier
I Have Taken The Suits And Shoes To Oxfam by Felicity Napier
There by Caroline Natzler
With My Mother, Missing The Train by Helena Nelson [pseud.]
Praise Song For My Mother by Grace Nichols
Exorcism by Dorothy Nimmo
My Father's Shadow by Dorothy Nimmo
Hansel And Gretel by Barbara Noel-scott
Chords by Eamer O'keeffe
The Naming Of Flowers by Jennie Osborne
Griselda by Evangeline Paterson
Embrace Of The Electric Eel by Pascale Petit
My Father's Clothes by Pascale Petit
My Mother's Clothes by Pascale Petit
Bo Tree by Patricia Pogson
Deep by Patricia Pogson
Night Fishing by Caroline Price
Fitting by Pauline Prior-pitt
I'll See You Down The Lane by Alison Pryde
The Woman Who Drank Us Up by Lesley Quayle
Mother's Room by Nicky Rice
Changing by Daphne Rock
Mother by Daphne Rock
Leavetaking by Veronica Rospigliosi
Before These Wars by Carol-ann Lumley Rumens
Another Kind Of Skin by Frances Sackett
Erdywurble by Carole Satyamurti
Where Are You? by Carole Satyamurti
The Photograph by Myra Schneider
Soup And Slavery by Myra Schneider
By Heart by Ruth Sharman
Left Rites by Hylda Sims
Bluetits by Ruth Smith
Ingredients Of Glass by Margaret Speak
Arioso Dolente by Anne Stevenson
When The Camel Is Dust It Goes Through The Needle's Eye by Anne Stevenson
Hair by Breda Sullivan
Mother by Isobel Thrilling
The Spoon Maker's Daughter by Susan Utting
Fatherhood by Joan Waddleton
Stilt-walker by Susan Wicks
Heading For The Heights by Merryn Williams
Libation by Palorine Williams
Bathing My Mother by Frances Wilson
Christmas Fare by Dilys Wood
Cat's-cradle by Lynne Wycherley
Earth Man by Lynne Wycherley
Taking Tea With My Father And Mother by Pam Zinnemann-hope
-- Table of Poems from Poem FinderŪ