"Netting the Sun" brings together the contents of Phoebe Hesketh's ten poetry collections, along with a selection of new poems. As a lifetime's work, it amply confirms Anne Stevenson's assessment of her as 'one of England's strongest and most genuine poets' - among the small group of women writers who have made a lasting impression on British poetry since the war. Throughout this collection the qualities which have won her such a wide readership are clearly seen: sensitivity, control, precision and musicality, a strong sense of compassion and a wry humour. A. Alvarez, reviewing an earlier volume, highlights Phoebe Hesketh's 'great purity and strength' and concludes that 'she has been absurdly underrated.'

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Phoebe Hesketh, daughter of the pioneer radiologist A.E.Rayner, was born in Preston in 1909 and edcuated at Cheltenham Ladies' College. For most of her life she has lived in Lancashire, in a landscape frequently described in her poetry, and also in her prose books Rivington (1972) and Village of the Mountain Ash (1990). During the Second World War she worked for the Bolton Evening News and was later a freelance lecturer, poetry teacher and journalist, producing many articles for journals and scripts for the BBC. She began writing poetry at an early age, but not until 1948 was her first book published; it was followed by nine further volumes before her Collected Poems were gathered together in 1989. Her poetry for younger readers has been published in A Song of Sunlight (Chatto, 1974) and in Six of the Best (Puffin, 1989). She has published fifteen poetry collections, and became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1956.

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