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          Christopher Arksey chooses poems from Philip Larkin, Christopher Reid and U.A. Fanthorpe to take to his desert island.

        1. Christopher Arksey chooses poems from Philip Larkin, Christopher Reid and U.A. Fanthorpe to take to his desert island.
        2. UA Fanthorpe, a highly regarded English poet who was first inspired by the human tragedy she saw in a neurological hospital, died April 28 in a hospice.
        3. UA Fanthorpe, who has died aged 79, reached the threshold of her 50th year before she published a remarkable first collection of poems.
        4. Delve deep into the lives, loves and other pursuits of your favourite authors with these biographies, interviews, intimate letters and critical responses.
        5. Fanthorpe's poem celebrates that persistent enjoyment of beauty, truth and goodness that lies at the heart of human creativity, and hope for a.

          6. UA Fanthorpe, who has died aged 79, reached the threshold of her 50th year before she published a remarkable first collection of poems..

          U. A. Fanthorpe

          English poet (–)

          Ursula Askham FanthorpeCBEFRSL (22 July – 28 April ) was an English poet, who published as U.

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          Her poetry comments mainly on social issues.

          Life and work

          Early years and education

          Born in south-east London, Fanthorpe was the daughter of a judge,[1] or as she put it "middle-class but honest parents".[2] She was educated at St Catherine's School, Bramley, in Surrey, and at St Anne's College, Oxford, where she "came to life",[2] receiving a first-classdegree in English language and literature.

          Working life

          She taught English at Cheltenham Ladies' College for 16 years, but then left teaching for jobs as a secretary, receptionist and hospital clerk in Bristol – in her poems, she later remembered some of the patients for whose records she had been responsible.[3]

          Fanthorpe's first volume of poetry, Side Effects (), has been said to "unsentimentally recover the invisible lives and