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The death of Veronica Forrest-Thomson in , aged just 27, is among the most galling and tragic losses to modern British poetry.!
Veronica Forrest-Thomson was born 71 years ago today.
Veronica Forrest-Thomson
Scottish poet and critic (1947–1975)
Veronica Elizabeth Marian Forrest-Thomson (28 November 1947 – 26 April 1975) was a Scottish poet and a critical theorist.
Her 1978 study Poetic Artifice: A Theory of Twentieth-Century Poetry was reissued in 2016.
Life and education
Veronica was born in Malaya to a rubber planter, John Forrest Thomson and his wife Jean, but grew up in Glasgow, Scotland.[1] She opted to hyphenate the surname, having originally been published under the name Veronica Forrest.
She studied at the University of Liverpool (BA, 1968) and Girton College, Cambridge (PhD, 1971) where her first supervisor was the poet J. H. Prynne.[2][3] Her Cambridge friends included the poets Wendy Mulford and Denise Riley.[4]
Forrest-Thomson later taught at the universities of Leicester and Birmingham.
Writings
Forrest-Thomson's critical study Poetic Artifice: A Theory of Twentieth-Century Poetry was pu