![]() ![]() ![]() The cover reference is to Katherine Mansfield. My 4th collection, Letter to my Rival, was published by Shoestring Press in November 2015. My first collection, The Sun’s Yellow Eye, was published by the National Poetry Foundation in 1997, followed by The Latin Master’s Story, Rockingham, 2000, and in 2006, Shoestring Press published my 3rd collection The First Wife’s Tale. I’ve also published translations of the Selected Poems of Federico Garcia Lorca (Bloodaxe 1992), a semi-serious novel, The Chalet Girls Grow Up (Plas Gwyn Books 1998), and a continuation of Jane Austen’s unfinished novel The Watsons (Pen Press 2005). I am literary adviser to the Wilfred Owen Association, having a great interest in the poets of the First World War.įor some time I was more used to writing criticism than poetry and my books include Six Women Novelists (Macmillan 1987), Preface to Hardy (Macmillan 1993) and Wilfred Owen (Seren 1993). After that I taught adult students for the Open University and the W.E.A., living for several years near Cranfield University where my husband worked as a physicist. Merryn Williams: I went to grammar school in Hastings in eleven-plus days, studied English at Murray Edwards College, Cambridge, and got a doctorate for my thesis on Thomas Hardy’s novels. ![]()
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