Esmé Gladys Hooton (1914–1992)[1] was an English poet. She is the author of two collections of poetry: City Sonnets, published by Routledge in 1947, and Zoo, published by Peter Scupham's Mandeville Press in 1980 with illustrations by David Holbrook and an introduction by John Mole.[2][3] Three poems from City Sonnets—"The Prophet," "Poor Bloom," and "At the Touch of Summer"—were included by Geoffrey Grigson in his 1949 anthology Poetry of the Present.[4] Hooton's poem "The Thickening Veil" was set to music by composer Ivor Walsworth, and performed at Wigmore Hall in 1955.[5] Though unpublished for 24 years, Zoo had been featured on BBC Home Service in 1956, read as a sequence with incidental music by Elisabeth Lutyens.[6] Hooton's work was also featured on the Home Service in 1943 and on BBC Radio 3 in 1983.[7][8]
References
- ^ "Cremation register summary". Deceased Online. Retrieved 20 November 2020.
- ^ Hooton, Esmé (1947). City Sonnets: And Other Poems. London: Routledge.OCLC 10652659
- ^ Hooton (1980). Zoo. Hitchin: Mandeville Press. ISBN 9780904533460.
- ^ Grigson, Geoffrey, ed. (1949). Poetry of the Present. London: Phoenix House. pp. 121–126.
- ^ "London Music". The Musical Times. 96 (1347): 269. May 1955. Retrieved 19 November 2020.
- ^ "Zoo". Radio Times. No. 1679. BBC. January 1956. Retrieved 20 November 2020.
- ^ "And so to bed". The Radio Times. No. 1042. BBC. September 1943. Retrieved 19 November 2020.
- ^ "The Farmstead". The Radio Times. No. 3098. BBC. 24 March 1983. Retrieved 19 November 2020.
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