Elaine Beckett
Poet & Screenwriter
Available for Readings, Commissions, Individual and Small Group On-line Mentoring
Available for Readings, Commissions, Individual and Small Group On-line Mentoring
Reviews
Faber New Poets 13 |
(Faber&Faber 2016)
ISBN: 978 – 0 – 571 – 33039 – 3 |
Sean O’Brien for The Guardian:
‘Laconic, undeceived, brilliantly evoked.'
Martin Malone for The Interpreter’s House:
‘Psycho-sexual truth-telling that I like. An adroit grasp of human affairs. Skilfully rendered.’
Alison Brackenbury for PN Review:
‘Beckett celebrates survival, in or after relationships.
Daniel Roy Connelly for Lotus Eater Magazine:
‘…brings to mind Mike Leigh’s acute filmic observation and Harold Pinter’s poetic circumlocutions. Beckett converges around issues of separation, the irrecoverable past, and honest industry in the throws of advanced capitalistic death.’
Chloe Stopa-Hunt for The Poetry Review:
'A captivating fusion of poems, by turns witty, satirical, and melancholic.'
‘Laconic, undeceived, brilliantly evoked.'
Martin Malone for The Interpreter’s House:
‘Psycho-sexual truth-telling that I like. An adroit grasp of human affairs. Skilfully rendered.’
Alison Brackenbury for PN Review:
‘Beckett celebrates survival, in or after relationships.
Daniel Roy Connelly for Lotus Eater Magazine:
‘…brings to mind Mike Leigh’s acute filmic observation and Harold Pinter’s poetic circumlocutions. Beckett converges around issues of separation, the irrecoverable past, and honest industry in the throws of advanced capitalistic death.’
Chloe Stopa-Hunt for The Poetry Review:
'A captivating fusion of poems, by turns witty, satirical, and melancholic.'
Sea Creature Regrows Entire Body |
(Verve Poetry Press 2021)
ISBN: 978 – 1 – 912565 – 57 – 3 |
Christopher Reid:
"Originality of voice and subject matter. So assured. She knows her territory intimately, and how to explore it with maximum effect."
Greta Stoddart:
‘Occasionally a poet comes along pretty much fully formed. Not only her voice – brazen, tender and undeceived – but how it is held in structures of great poise and resonance. Revelatory poems to be read, and read again.’ (Verve Poetry Press 2021)
Roy McFarlane @rmcfarlane63 Sep 5, 2021: (unsolicited response)
‘Raw, intimate, immediate and written with a deft touch.,beautiful'
Stephen Romer (poet translator, academic):
"In the folds of her fine lyrics Beckett can hide a stiletto of startling satirical force…”
Gill Barr @GillBarr4 Mar 2, 2021: (unsolicited response)
“Beautiful cover, great title and stunning poems.”
Rushika Wick @RushikaWick May 24, 2021: (unsolicited response)
“Spent a wild rainy weekend with this elegant and furious collection - the craft and slow revelations are brilliant”
Carole Bourne-Taylor (Associate Professor of French, Brasenose College, Oxford):
“Compassionate and unassuming, lucid and witty, poised and profound”.
Dr Rosalind Easton @Rosalind_Easton May 29, 2021: (unsolicited response)
“This new collection by @Elaine__Beckett is wonderful and I love it very much indeed.”
Dr Rebecca Farmer @RebeccaMLFarmer May 8, 2021: (unsolicited response)
“Such a powerful collection - the poems are insistent and keep encouraging me back to read them again.”
"Originality of voice and subject matter. So assured. She knows her territory intimately, and how to explore it with maximum effect."
Greta Stoddart:
‘Occasionally a poet comes along pretty much fully formed. Not only her voice – brazen, tender and undeceived – but how it is held in structures of great poise and resonance. Revelatory poems to be read, and read again.’ (Verve Poetry Press 2021)
Roy McFarlane @rmcfarlane63 Sep 5, 2021: (unsolicited response)
‘Raw, intimate, immediate and written with a deft touch.,beautiful'
Stephen Romer (poet translator, academic):
"In the folds of her fine lyrics Beckett can hide a stiletto of startling satirical force…”
Gill Barr @GillBarr4 Mar 2, 2021: (unsolicited response)
“Beautiful cover, great title and stunning poems.”
Rushika Wick @RushikaWick May 24, 2021: (unsolicited response)
“Spent a wild rainy weekend with this elegant and furious collection - the craft and slow revelations are brilliant”
Carole Bourne-Taylor (Associate Professor of French, Brasenose College, Oxford):
“Compassionate and unassuming, lucid and witty, poised and profound”.
Dr Rosalind Easton @Rosalind_Easton May 29, 2021: (unsolicited response)
“This new collection by @Elaine__Beckett is wonderful and I love it very much indeed.”
Dr Rebecca Farmer @RebeccaMLFarmer May 8, 2021: (unsolicited response)
“Such a powerful collection - the poems are insistent and keep encouraging me back to read them again.”
Unsolicited responses
to poems in
'Sea Creature Regrows Entire Body':
‘Thursday’ (Originally published in The Poetry Review. Summer 2020)
Scarlett Ward-Bennet @scarlettwith2ts Jul 6, 2020:
“This, to me, is the perfect poem. It’s so well written, I have been thinking about it for hours”
Laura Scott @LauraScott112 Aug 24, 2020:
“I know it’s Monday not Thursday but this poem is so good.”
Simon Armitage:
“Lovely”
all-the-things-she-said @1mumrevolution:
‘A moving and beautifully nuanced poem. That opening line is just perfect. We read it in class today, it really chimed with my 18 year olds.’
(Quote Tweet Zeeshan Pathan @ZeeshanJaanam:
“If after I read a poem the world looks like that poem for 24 hours or so I'm sure it's a good one.” ― Elizabeth Bishop)
From Reem Rafei @literareem in response to @ZeeshanJaanam:
“For me, it’s Thursday by Elaine Beckett. For more than 24 hours tho. ”
Geraldine Clarkson Celandine @GBClarkson Jul 31, 2020:
“Finally caught up with this lovely unravelling quietening contemplative centering poem...offering a way through to survival & hope, rebirth.”
Scarlett Ward-Bennet @scarlettwith2ts Jul 6, 2020:
“This, to me, is the perfect poem. It’s so well written, I have been thinking about it for hours”
Laura Scott @LauraScott112 Aug 24, 2020:
“I know it’s Monday not Thursday but this poem is so good.”
Simon Armitage:
“Lovely”
all-the-things-she-said @1mumrevolution:
‘A moving and beautifully nuanced poem. That opening line is just perfect. We read it in class today, it really chimed with my 18 year olds.’
(Quote Tweet Zeeshan Pathan @ZeeshanJaanam:
“If after I read a poem the world looks like that poem for 24 hours or so I'm sure it's a good one.” ― Elizabeth Bishop)
From Reem Rafei @literareem in response to @ZeeshanJaanam:
“For me, it’s Thursday by Elaine Beckett. For more than 24 hours tho. ”
Geraldine Clarkson Celandine @GBClarkson Jul 31, 2020:
“Finally caught up with this lovely unravelling quietening contemplative centering poem...offering a way through to survival & hope, rebirth.”
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'The Garden Is Within'
From Charlie Baylis @charliebaylis6: ‘Elaine Beckett teaching us the origin of stillness’ |
'Two Figures On A Bridge'
From Roger Hare@RogerHare6: Jun 14, 2021 ‘Just spent an enjoyable half-hour beginning to explore this., can't get beyond the marvellous contemplation of Two Figures on a Bridge - wonderful !!’ |
