Mulford, Wendy, b 1941 (poet)
Person
Biography
Born Wales, 1941. Educated at Newnham College, Cambridge. She established and ran the poetry press, Street Editions, in Cambridge between 1972 and 1993, publishing the works of contemporary British poets including John James, J.H. Prynne and John Wilkinson. The press merged with Reality Studios in 1993 to form Reality Street. Her own published works include: 'No Fee' (with Denise Riley, 1979); 'Some Poems 1968-1978' (with Denise Riley, 1982); 'The Bay of Naples' (1992); 'The East Anglia Sequence: Norfolk 1984 – Suffolk 1994' (1998); 'The Land Between' (2009).
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
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Poems and correspondence from the library of Julia Ball, 1988-2012 and undated
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10496/7
Scope and Contents
Comprises: Wendy Mulford, ‘The Bay of Naples’, collection of poems, subtitled ‘for Howard Hodgkin / After the Exhibition ‘Forty Paintings 1973-1984’ / The Whitechapel Gallery 1985’ and dated ‘Cambridge – Sennen / 1986-1988’, 28 loose A4 folios, typescript with manuscript amendments, photocopied (apparently incomplete: lacking the poem ‘None but the brave deserves the fair’ called for on the contents page), with a folded slip bearing a reproduction of Hodgkin’s painting ‘After Corot’;...
Dates:
1988-2012 and undated
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