Elma Mitchell

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

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 School of Librarianship, University College London.

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

She moved to Buckland St Mary, Somerset, and worked as a freelance writer.^[1]

Awards

• 1977 Cheltenham Festival Poetry Competition
• 1999 Cholmondeley Award

Works

• The Poor Man In The Flesh. Manchester: Harry Chambers/Peterloo Poets. 1976. ISBN 978-0-905291-04-8.
• The Human Cage. Manchester: Harry Chambers/Peterloo Poets. 1979. ISBN 978-0-905291-22-2.
• Furnished Rooms. Manchester: H. Chambers, Peterloo Poets. 1983. ISBN 978-0-905291-47-5.
• People Etcetera: Poems New & Selected. Manchester: 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. p. 241. ISBN 978-0-7486-2015-9. Elma Mitchell.
• U. A. Fanthorpe; Elma Mitchell; Charles Causley (1996). Penguin Modern Poets. Penguin. ISBN 978-0-14-058754-8.

References

External links

• Jane Dowson, Alice Entwistle (2005). A history of twentieth-century British women's poetry. Cambridge University Press. p. 100. ISBN 978-0-521-81946-6. Elma Mitchell.
• Ruth Padel (6 June 1999). "THE SUNDAY POEM: No 26 Elma Mitchell". The Independent. Archived from the original on 3 November 2012.