Molly Holden
British poet (1927 – 1981)
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Biography
Holden grew up in Surrey, and Wiltshire.[2] 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.[3]
She suffered from multiple sclerosis.[4][5]
Awards
- 1972 Cholmondeley Award
Works
- A Hill Like a Horse, 1963
- Bright Cloud, 1964
- To Make Me Grieve. Chatto and Windus. 1968. ISBN 978-0-7011-1413-8.
- Air and Chill Earth. Chatto and Windus. 1971. ISBN 978-0-7011-1831-0.
- The Country Over. Chatto and Windus. 1975.
- Selected poems. Carcanet. 1987. ISBN 978-0-85635-696-4.
- Holden, Molly; English, Andy; Elsted, Crispin; Elsted, Apollonia; Elsted, Jan; Simenson, Alanna (2021). Sudden immobility. Mission, British Columbia: Barbarian Press, Mad Hatter Bookbinding Co. ISBN 978-0-920971-58-1. OCLC 1296049445.
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.
