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Joanna Boulter (1942 - 2019) poems and biography as last provided by Joanna: Joanna Boulter was born in Somerset of a Welsh mother (who should have been a poet herself) and a Wiltshire father, and grew up in rural and semi-rural Wiltshire. As well as the encouragement she received at home, Joanna had the good fortune to have excellent teachers at the grammar school in Salisbury, from where she went on to London’s Royal Holloway College to study music, English and Latin. She wanted to be a composer. Why? Because music had to be worked at and therefore seemed more worthwhile. It wasn’t until the early derivative lyric voice deserted her that she realised poetry had to be worked at too. By that time she was married and on various postings in the Far East and Middle East, not knowing how to get in touch with other poets and contemporary poetry. Finally returned to the UK (rural and isolated again), Joanna discovered contemporary poetry on Radio 3, which turned out to be a lifesaver. She blew her divorce settlement on a piano and an OU course in Twentieth Century Poetry, and though she sold the piano some years ago to visit her daughter in America, the course is still paying off thirty years later. She and her second husband now live in Darlington, where they run Arrowhead Press. She’s a founder member of the town’s Vane Women writing/publishing co-operative, has an MA in Writing Poetry from Newcastle University, and was awarded a Hawthornden Fellowship in 2004. Her first full poetry collection, Twenty Four Preludes & Fugues on Dmitri Shostakovich, (Arc Publications, 2006), was shortlisted for the Forward First Collection Prize.
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