1. In the Driver's Seat: Muriel Spark's Editorship of thePoetry Review
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Susan Margaret Sheridan
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Literature ,History ,Literature and Literary Theory ,Poetry ,business.industry ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Preference ,SPARK (programming language) ,Publishing ,Reading (process) ,business ,computer ,computer.programming_language ,media_common - Abstract
For just over a year in 1947–1948, Muriel Spark was editor of the prestigious but conservative Poetry Review in London, the journal of the Poetry Society. This made her the only female editor of a little magazine in Britain at the time, and one of the very few in the English-speaking world. Her editorship was short-lived, apparently because her preference for modernist poetry and her policy of publishing new writers offended many of the Society’s members. In this paper I look more closely at Spark’s innovative editorship and the reasons it came to a premature end, drawing on a reading of the magazine and also on the Spark archives.
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- 2008
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