Molly Holden

Molly Winifred Holden (7 September 1927 London - 1981) was a British poet. Her maiden name is Gilbert, granddaughter of popular children's author Henry Gilbert.^[1]

Life

She grew up in Surrey, and Wiltshire.^[2] She graduated from King's College London in 1951.

She suffered from Multiple Sclerosis.^[3][4]

Award

• 1972 Cholmondeley Award

Works

• A Hill Like a Horse, 1963
• Bright Cloud, 1964
• To Make Me Grieve. Chatto and Windus. 1968. 
• Air and Chill Earth. Chatto and Windus. 1971. 
• Selected poems. Carcanet. 1987. ISBN 9780856356964. 

Memoirs

• Geoffrey Hill, Molly Holden, Alfred Edward Housman (2003). Three Bromsgrove poets. Housman Society. ISBN 9780904579192. 

Anthologies

• Patricia Beer, ed (1975). New poems: a PEN anthology of contemporary poetry. Hutchinson. ISBN 9780091255305. 
• Colin Falck, Ian Hamilton, ed (1975). Poems since 1900: an anthology of British and American verse in the twentieth century. Macdonald and Jane's. ISBN 9780356031514. 

References

1. ^ Holden, Molly (1987). Selected poems; Poetry Signatures Series. University of Michigan: Carcanet. p. 117. ISBN 0856356964. http://books.google.com/books?ei=okWYTfbJIdCjtgeUib31Cw&ct=result&id=OToiAAAAMAAJ&dq=henry+gilbert+%22robin+hood%22+peru&q=%22henry+gilbert%22#search_anchor. 
2. ^ Jenny Stringer, John Sutherland, ed (1996). The Oxford companion to twentieth-century literature in English. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780192122711. http://books.google.com/books?id=5Vr1RWniW_YC&pg=PA310&dq=Molly+Holden+poet&lr=&as_brr=3. 
3. ^ Mark Willhardt, Alan Michael Parker, Andrew Peter Motion, ed (2000). Who's who in twentieth-century world poetry Who's who series. Routledge. ISBN 9780415163569. http://books.google.com/books?id=kxOodeGeNQQC&pg=PA149&dq=Molly+Holden+poet&lr=&as_brr=3. 
4. ^ Ian Ousby, Doris Lessing, ed (1993). Title The Cambridge guide to literature in English. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521440868. http://books.google.com/books?id=oeZ226OlfbkC&pg=PA444&dq=Molly+Holden+poet&lr=&as_brr=3. 

External links

• "The Poetry of Molly Holden", Roger Alma, Poetry Nation, No 2 - 1974
• Colin Falck (2003). American and British verse in the twentieth century: the poetry that matters. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. ISBN 9780754634249. http://books.google.com/books?id=Jl2eEdGh9dYC&pg=PA153&lpg=PA153&dq=Molly+Holden+poet&source=bl&ots=wbjE78DKn9&sig=OARScGwl4i1saiG5FXNYraArTQE&hl=en&ei=wfNPSpfJMMODtgeyjMyyBA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10. 
• Jane Dowson, Alice Entwistle (2005). A history of twentieth-century British women's poetry. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521819466. http://books.google.com/books?id=JMtqyxmo5j8C&pg=PA97&lpg=PA97&dq=Molly+Holden+poet&source=bl&ots=wEun-WzpQB&sig=_HFc9R8RIyuzBQb3fpQtE1X_2jA&hl=en&ei=wfNPSpfJMMODtgeyjMyyBA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8. 
• SIMON Curtis (28 Sep 2007). Recent poetry. 21. pp. 75–84. http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/120055621/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0. 

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Name	Holden, Molly
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Date of birth	7 September 1927
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Date of death	1981
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