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.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)

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 November 3, 2012.