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Molly Winifred Holden (7 September 1927 in 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.
• The Country Over. Chatto and Windus. 1975.
• Selected poems. Carcanet. 1987. ISBN 978-0-85635-696-4.
• 'Sudden Immobility: Selected Poems of Molly Holden'. Barbarian Press. 2021. ISBN 0-920971-58-x

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, eds. (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

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. p. 97. ISBN 978-0-521-81946-6. Molly Holden poet.
• SIMON Curtis (28 September 2007). Recent poetry. Critical Quarterly. Vol. 21. pp. 75–84.^{[dead link]}

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