Sandeep Parmar is a contemporary poet, who was born in
Nottingham
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, England, and raised in Southern California. She currently lives in the UK.
Parmar is a Professor of English Literature at the University of Liverpool.
Her poetry collections include ''The Marble Orchard'' (Shearsman 2012) and ''Eidolon'' (Shearsman 2015). She is also the author of ''Reading Mina Loy's Autobiographies: Myth of the Modern Woman'' (Bloomsbury 2013), and the editor of ''The Collected Poems of Hope Mirrlees'' (Carcanet 2011) and Nancy Cunard's ''Selected Poems'' (Carcanet 2016).
See also
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British Poetry Revival
"The British Poetry Revival" is the general name given to a loose poetry movement in Britain that took place in the 1960s and 1970s. The revival was a modernist-inspired reaction to the Movement's more conservative approach to British poetry. T ...
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Nancy Cunard
Nancy Clara Cunard (10 March 1896 – 17 March 1965) was a British writer, heiress and political activist. She was born into the British upper class, and devoted much of her life to fighting racism and fascism. She became a muse to some of the ...
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Hope Mirrlees
(Helen) Hope Mirrlees (8 April 1887 – 1 August 1978) was a British poet, novelist, and translator. She is best known for the 1926 ''Lud-in-the-Mist'', a fantasy novel and influential classic,David Langford and Mike Ashley,
"Mirrlees, Hope", i ...
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Mina Loy
Mina Loy (born Mina Gertrude Löwy; 27 December 1882 – 25 September 1966) was a British-born artist, writer, poet, playwright, novelist, painter, designer of lamps, and bohemian. She was one of the last of the first-generation modernists to ...
External links
Review of ''The Marble Orchard'' at ''Fortnightly Review''Review of ''The Marble Orchard'' at ''The Guardian''Review of ''Eidolon'' at ''Dundee University Review of the Arts''Review of ''Eidolon'' at ''Mascara Literary Review''Poem recordings at The Poetry ArchivePoems recordings at Archive of the NowVideo recording of collaboration with James Byrne'Not a British Subject: Race and Poetry in the UK'Further publications by Sandeep Parmar
References
1979 births
21st-century British poets
English-language poets
British women poets
Living people
21st-century British women writers
British writers of Indian descent
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