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Name
  
Alison Fell

Role
  
Poet


Alison Fell wwwscottishpoetrylibraryorguksitesdefaultfil

Books
  
The Pillow Boy of the Lady Ono, Dreams - like heretics, Liberty - Equality - Maternity, Mer de Glace, Every Move You Make

Education
  
Edinburgh College of Art

Poems for #SeptWomenPoets


Alison Fell (born 1944) is a Scottish poet and novelist.

Contents

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Life

Born in Dumfries, Scotland, Alison Fell was educated at Dumfries Academy and Edinburgh Art College, from where she graduated as a sculptor. She began writing for Scotland Magazine in 1962 and in 1970 she moved to London, where she co-founded the Woman's Street Theatre Group. An account of the company and Fell's life at this period appears in Michèle Roberts's memoir Paper Houses.

She worked at the underground newspaper Ink, and contributed to Spare Rib.

In addition to her output of poetry and fiction, she held the School of English and American Studies Writing Fellowship at the University of East Anglia in 1998.

Awards

  • 1984 Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize
  • 1991 Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature for Mer de Glace
  • 2002-3 Royal Literary Fund Fellowship

    • Poetry

  • Smile, Smile, Smile, Smile. Sheba. 1980. ISBN 978-0-907179-03-0. 
  • Kisses for Mayakovsky. Virago. 1984. ISBN 978-0-86068-593-7. 
  • The Crystal Owl. Methuen Paperback. 1988. ISBN 978-0-413-18810-6. 
  • Dreams, Like Heretics: New and Selected Poems. Serpent's Tail. 1997. ISBN 978-1-85242-561-6. 
  • August 6, 1945. 

    • Novels

  • The Grey Dancer. Collins. 1981. ISBN 978-0-00184-267-0. 
  • Every Move You Make. Virago. 1984. ISBN 978-0-86068-585-2. 
  • The Bad Box. Virago. 1987. ISBN 978-0-86068-497-8. 
  • Mer de Glace. Serpent's Tail. 1992. ISBN 978-1-85242-267-7. 
  • The Pillow Boy of the Lady Onogoro. Harcourt Brace. 1996. ISBN 978-0-15-100186-6. 
  • The Mistress of Lilliput. 1999. ISBN 978-1-86230-048-4. 
  • Tricks of the light. Doubleday. 2003. ISBN 978-0-385-60508-3. 
  • The Element -Inth in Greek. Sandstone Press Ltd. 2012. ISBN 978-1-90-873702-1. 

    • Anthology

  • Licking the Bed Clean: Five Feminist Poets. Teeth imprints. 1978. ISBN 978-0-9506390-0-0. 

    • Editor

  • Alison Fell, ed. (1989). The Seven Deadly Sins. Illustrator Amanda Faulkner. Serpent's Tail. ISBN 978-1-85242-140-3. 
  • Alison Fell, ed. (1990). The Seven Cardinal Virtues. Illustrator Grizelda Holderness. Serpent's Tail. ISBN 978-1-85242-169-4. 
  • Serious Hysterics. Serpent's Tail. 1992. ISBN 978-1-85242-222-6. 

    • References

    Alison Fell Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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