Patricia Beer

Patricia Beer
File:Patriciabeer1982.jpg Patricia Beer Dry-point by George Adamson RE
Born	November 4, 1919 Exmouth, Devon
Died	August 15, 1999 Upottery, Devon, England
Alma mater	University of Exeter; University of Oxford
Occupation	Poet and critic
Spouse(s)	P.N. Furbank; then Damien Parsons

Patricia Beer (4 November 1919 – 15 August 1999) was an English poet and critic.

She was born in Exmouth, Devon into a family of Plymouth Brethren. She moved away from her religious background as a young adult, becoming a teacher and academic. She began to write poetry after World War II, while living in Italy; she is most often classified as a 'New Romantic' poet comparable to John Heath-Stubbs. On her own account, however, there is a discontinuity in her work. Devon is a major presence.

She was married twice; first to the writer P.N. Furbank, and then to Damien Parsons, an architect, settling in Upottery, near Honiton, England. From the later 1960s she wrote full-time. She edited several significant anthologies, broadcast, and contributed to literary reviews.

Works

• Loss of the Magyar, and other poems (1959)
• The Survivors (1963) poems
• Just Like the Resurrection (1967) poems
• Mrs. Beer's House (1968) autobiography
• The Estuary (1971) poems
• An Introduction to the Metaphysical Poets (1972)
• Reader: I Married Him (1974) criticism
• Driving West (1975)
• Moon's Ottery (1978)
• Selected Poems (1979)
• The Lie of the Land (1983)
• Collected Poems (1988) poems
• Friends of Heraclitus (1993)
• Autumn (1997) poems
• Abbey Tomb (date unknown)
• The Lost Woman (1983)

External links

• Patricia Beer - 1924 - 1999 Accessed 2009-12-27
• Obituary (The Guardian): Patricia Beer Accessed 2015-02-09
• Obituary (The Independent): Patricia Beer Accessed 2009-12-27
• Portrait of Patricia Beer (dry-point by George Adamson RE)