Elma Mitchell

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Name Elma Mitchell Role Poet		Died November 23, 2000

Education Somerville College, Oxford Books People Etcetera, The human cage, Furnished Rooms

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Elma Mitchell (November 19, 1919 Airdrie, Lanarkshire - November 23, 2000) was a British poet.

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Life

She won a scholarship to Somerville College, Oxford, where she gained a first in English in 1941

She went on to achieve a diploma in librarianship at The University College London

She worked as a librarian and information officer for the BBC (1941–43).

She moved to the Buckland St Mary, Somerset, and worked as a freelance writer.

Awards

1977 Cheltenham Festival Poetry Competition

1999 Cholmondeley Award

Works

The Poor Man In The Flesh. Harry Chambers/Peterloo Poets. 1976. ISBN 978-0-905291-04-8.

The Human Cage. Harry Chambers/Peterloo Poets. 1979. ISBN 978-0-905291-22-2.

Furnished Rooms. H. Chambers, Peterloo Poets. 1983. ISBN 978-0-905291-47-5.

People Etcetera: Poems New & Selected. Peterloo Poets. 1987. ISBN 978-0-905291-84-0.

Anthologies

Maurice Lindsay, Lesley Duncan, eds. (2006). "The Cruxifiction Will Not Take Place". The Edinburgh book of twentieth-century Scottish poetry. Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 978-0-7486-2015-9. CS1 maint: Uses editors parameter (link)

U. A. Fanthorpe, Elma Mitchell, Charles Causley (1996). Penguin Modern Poets. Penguin. ISBN 978-0-14-058754-8. CS1 maint: Uses authors parameter (link)

References

Elma Mitchell Wikipedia

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