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London: Enitharmon, 2010. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.508; [4]. Publisher's dark blue cloth lettered in gilt to spine, typographic dust-jacket with printed price of £25.00 to front flap. Previous owner's small red stamp to title page, light scuffing to textblock edges, rolling and to spine, wearing to edges, wearing to edges of dust-jacket. Very good. U. A. Fanthorpe was a widely regarded poet both amongst the general public and fellow poets. In 1944 she was the first woman to be nominated for the Professor of Poetry at Oxford, and she was awarded the Queen's gold Medal for Poetry in 2003.