Molly Holden

Molly Winifred Holden (7 September 1927 London – 1981) was a British poet.

Biography

Holden grew up in Surrey, and Wiltshire.^[1] She graduated from King's College London in 1951. Her maiden name was Gilbert. She was the granddaughter of the popular children's author Henry Gilbert.^[2]

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

Awards

• 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 978-0-85635-696-4.

Memoirs

• Geoffrey Hill, Molly Holden, Alfred Edward Housman (2003). Three Bromsgrove poets. Housman Society. ISBN 978-0-904579-19-2.

Anthologies

• Patricia Beer, ed. (1975). New poems: a PEN anthology of contemporary poetry. Hutchinson. ISBN 978-0-09-125530-5.
• 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 978-0-356-03151-4.

References

1. Jenny Stringer, John Sutherland, ed. (1996). The Oxford companion to twentieth-century literature in English. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-212271-1.
2. Holden, Molly (1987). Selected poems; Poetry Signatures Series. University of Michigan: Carcanet. p. 117. ISBN 0856356964.
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 978-0-415-16356-9.
4. Ian Ousby, Doris Lessing, ed. (1993). Title The Cambridge guide to literature in English. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-44086-8.

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 978-0-7546-3424-9.
• Jane Dowson, Alice Entwistle (2005). A history of twentieth-century British women's poetry. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-81946-6.
• SIMON Curtis (28 Sep 2007). Recent poetry. Critical Quarterly 21. pp. 75–84.