Elma Mitchell Explained

Elma Mitchell
Birth Date:	19 November 1919
Birth Place:	Airdrie, Lanarkshire, Scotland
Nationality:	British

Elma Mitchell (November 19, 1919 – November 23, 2000) was a Scottish poet.

Biography

Mitchell 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. Mitchell worked as a librarian and information officer for the BBC (1941–1943). She moved to Buckland St Mary, Somerset, and worked as a freelance writer.^[1]

Awards

• 1977 Cheltenham Festival Poetry Competition
• 1999 Cholmondeley Award

Works

• Book: The Poor Man In The Flesh . Manchester. Harry Chambers/Peterloo Poets. 1976. 978-0-905291-04-8 .
• Book: The Human Cage . Manchester. Harry Chambers/Peterloo Poets. 1979. 978-0-905291-22-2 .
• Book: Furnished Rooms. Manchester. H. Chambers, Peterloo Poets. 1983. 978-0-905291-47-5 .
• Book: People Etcetera: Poems New & Selected . Manchester. Peterloo Poets. 1987. 978-0-905291-84-0 .

Anthologies

• Book: The Edinburgh book of twentieth-century Scottish poetry. registration. 241. Elma Mitchell.. The Cruxifiction Will Not Take Place. Maurice Lindsay . Lesley Duncan. Edinburgh University Press. 2006. 978-0-7486-2015-9 .
• Book: Penguin Modern Poets. . Elma Mitchell . . Penguin. 1996. 978-0-14-058754-8 .

External links

• Book: A history of twentieth-century British women's poetry. registration. 100. Elma Mitchell.. Jane Dowson, Alice Entwistle. Cambridge University Press. 2005. 978-0-521-81946-6 .
• News: THE SUNDAY POEM: No 26 Elma Mitchell. https://web.archive.org/web/20121103160619/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/the-sunday-poem-1098514.html. November 3, 2012. Ruth Padel. 6 June 1999. The Independent.

Notes and References

1. News: Elma Mitchell:A poet linking the great and small issues of life. The Guardian. 5 December 2000 . Harry Chambers .