Patricia Beer

Patricia Beer’s Collected Poems is published by Carcanet. She died in 1999.

In the LRB Archive:

• Poem: ‘Where’er You Walk’ · 2 September 1999

• Two Hares and a Priest: Pushkin · 13 May 1999

  • Pushkin by Elizabeth Feinstein

• Sequence: Seven Poems · 19 June 1997

• For a Lark · 21 March 1996

  • Hearts Undefeated: Women’s Writing of the Second World War edited by Jenny Hartley

• Poem: ‘From Wilfred Owen 1918’ · 2 November 1995

• Poem: ‘Art History’ · 7 September 1995

• Full of Teeth · 20 July 1995

  • The Life of Graham Greene. Vol. II: 1939-55 by Norman Sherry
  • Graham Greene: Three Lives by Anthony Mockler
  • Graham Greene: Friend and Brother by Leopoldo Duran
  • Graham Greene: The Man Within by Michael Shelden

• Poem: ‘Small Talk at Wreyland’ · 9 February 1995

• I Should Have Shrieked · 8 December 1994

  • John Betjeman: Letters, Vol. I, 1926-1951 edited by Candida Lycett Green

• Period Pain · 9 June 1994

  • Aristocrats by Stella Tillyard

• Two Poems · 24 February 1994

• Memories are made of this · 16 December 1993

  • Aren’t We Due a Royalty Statement? by Giles Gordon
  • Yesterday Came Suddenly by Francis King
  • Excursions in the Real World by William Trevor

• Something about her eyes · 24 June 1993

  • Daphne du Maurier by Margaret Forster

• Bert’s Needs · 25 March 1993

  • Lawrence’s Women: The Intimate Life of D.H. Lawrence by Elaine Feinstein

• Poem: ‘The night Marlowe died’ · 25 February 1993

• Were I a cloud · 28 January 1993

  • Robert Bridges: A Biography by Catherine Phillips

• According to A.N. Wilson · 3 December 1992

  • Jesus by A.N. Wilson

• Big Thinks · 20 August 1992

  • Sleepwalker in a Fog by Tatyana Tolstaya, translated by Jamey Gambrell

• Poem: ‘E.T. phone home’ · 9 July 1992

• What he meant by happiness · 11 June 1992

  • The Wreck of the Deutschland by Sean Street
  • Hopkins: A Literary Biography by Norman White

• Poem: ‘Pharaoh’s Dream’ · 26 March 1992

• Little Girl · 12 March 1992

  • Hideous Kinky by Esther Freud
  • Eve’s Tattoo by Emily Prager
  • A Dubious Legacy by Mary Wesley

• Poem: ‘Footbinding’ · 9 January 1992

• Very like Poole Harbour · 5 December 1991

  • With and Without Buttons by Mary Butts, edited by Nathalie Blondel

• Enough is enough · 26 September 1991

  • Diaries by Antonia White, edited by Susan Chitty

• Getting on with it · 15 August 1991

  • Lives in the Shadow with J. Krishnamurti by Radha Rajagopal Sloss

• Happy Few · 23 May 1991

  • Told in Gath by Max Wright

• Poem: ‘Cockcrow’ · 30 August 1990

• Poem: ‘The Lost Woman’ · 4 November 1982

• Poem: ‘Blood will have blood’ · 5 August 1982

• Ladies and Gentlemen · 6 May 1982

  • The Young Rebecca: Writings of Rebecca West 1911-17 by Jane Marcus
  • The Harsh Voice by Rebecca West, introduced by Alexandra Pringle
  • The Meaning of Treason by Rebecca West
  • 1990 by Rebecca West

• Two Poems · 4 February 1982

• Seeing the light · 16 July 1981

  • Part of a Journey: An Autobiographical Journal 1977-1979 by Philip Toynbee

• Thomas’s Four Hats · 2 April 1981

  • The Poetry of Edward Thomas by Andrew Motion

• Moving in · 20 November 1980

  • A Poor Man’s House by Stephen Reynolds

• Merry Wife of Windsor · 16 October 1980

  • The Duchess of Windsor by Diana Mosley

• New Women · 17 July 1980

  • The Odd Women by George Gissing
  • The Beth Book by Sarah Grand

• Poem: ‘The Spinsters and the Knitters in the Sun’ · 19 June 1980

• Poem: ‘The Conjurer’ · 1 May 1980

• Poem: ‘Midsummer in Town’ · 6 December 1979

• Make-Believe · 8 November 1979

  • The Intruder by Gillian Tindall
  • Mother Can You Hear Me? by Margaret Forster
  • Treasures of Time by Penelope Lively
  • Wild Nights by Emma Tennant

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