Information from the British Council of Literature:
She has published poetry and fiction for both adults and children, and has written for a number of publications, including Spare Rib magazine. She was joint winner of the Boardman Tasker Memorial Prize for her novel Mer de Glace (1991), and holds a Royal Literary Fund Fellowship for 2002-3 based at University College London.
She also co-wrote Mapping the Edge, a site-specific theatre piece, with Amanda Dalton and Bernardine Evaristo, first staged at the Sheffield Crucible in September 2001 and subsequently adapted for BBC Radio 3.
Her last novel, The Mistress of Lilliput (1999), is a re-working of Gulliver’s Travels in which Gulliver is followed on his journeys by his wife. Her most recent novel, Tricks of the Light (2003), is a powerful portrayal of love in middle age.”
In her poetry, Alison Fell returns to many of the same themes. Some of these can be seen within August 6, 1945.
- Descriptions of light and landscape
- Sensual/sexual imagery
How are these themes seen in ‘August 6 1945’ and what effect do they have? Are they important? Do they add anything else to our understanding of the poem and the poet’s ideas within it?
- Wikipedia Entry on Alison Fell
- British Council of Literature – read biographical entry here
- Other poems about nuclear war here