From Me to You

by Fanthorpe, U.A.; Bailey, R.V.; Wadley, Nick

• ISBN13: 9781904634553
• ISBN10: 1904634559
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-11-01
• Publisher: Enitharmon Press

Summary

This is a collection of poems written between two lovers over the course of their relationship. While some coincide with important dates such as Valentine's Day, birthdays, or Christmas, most are simply what comes when one lover wishes to reach out the other.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

An Old Tale	p. 7
From Me to You	p. 7
20.viii.2003	p. 9
The Absent-Minded Lover's Apology	p. 10
Adjectives for U. A.	p. 11
All I Can Say (14.ii.2004)	p. 12
'As Well as the Bible and Shakespeare ...?'	p. 13
At Averham	p. 14
At the Ferry	p. 16
Atlas	p. 18
Chaplaincy Fell Walk	p. 19
Christmas Presents	p. 20
Coming To	p. 21
Confessio Amantis	p. 22
The Custom of the Country	p. 23
Dear True Love	p. 24
Dear Valentine	p. 25
Difficilior Lectio	p. 26
Diglis Lock	p. 27
Elegy for a Cat	p. 28
Envoy	p. 30
For Leo on 14.ii.2000	p. 31
For UA, in Cornwall	p. 32
Going Under	p. 33
Hereby	p. 34
Homing In	p. 35
Idyll	p. 36
Looking for Jorvik	p. 37
Matrimonial Poem	p. 39
The Mineral Lover	p. 40
My Lion is a Unicorn	p. 41
23 November	p. 42
Per pro	p. 43
Piano Duet	p. 45
The Poet's Companion	p. 46
Poetry Reading: For Leo	p. 48
Queueing Outside the Jeu de Paume in Light Rain	p. 49
Reflection (1965)	p. 50
Skin-loose	p. 51
Song	p. 53
The Moment: 19-20 August 1932	p. 54
To To	p. 57
Ullapool	p. 58
Where'er I walk	p. 59
With You	p. 60
Workshop's End	p. 61
You	p. 62
7301	p. 63
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