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a b "Costa Poetry Award 2017" (PDF). Costa Book Awards. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 January 2018 . Retrieved 2 January 2018. Dunmore prefaces the book with a quote from Kipling: ‘If any question why we died, tell them, because our fathers lied.’ Dunmore's husband Frank Charnley, whom she married in 1980, is a lawyer. [12] Dunmore had a son, daughter and stepson, and three grandchildren at the time of her death. [1] Awards and honours [ edit ] Sutton High School Magazine, 1965 and 1967. (Poems published in 1965 and 1967, and prize awarded for History and English listed in 1967 magazine.)Helen Dunmore was an award-winning novelist, children’s author and poet who will be remembered for the depth and breadth of her fiction. Rich and intricate, yet narrated with a deceptive simplicity that made all of her work accessible and heartfelt, her writing stood out for the fluidity and lyricism of her prose, and her extraordinary ability to capture the presence of the past. The Man Booker Prize 2010". 29 April 2010. Archived from the original on 3 January 2018 . Retrieved 5 June 2017. Helen Dunmore FRSL (12 December 1952 – 5 June 2017 [1]) was a British poet, novelist, and short story and children's writer. [2] Showalter, Elaine (27 September 2003). "Dreams of a dead daughter". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 16 June 2016 . Retrieved 5 June 2017. . Retrieved 5 June 2017.

Death of Novelist Helen Dunmore Announced". Foyles. 5 June 2017. Archived from the original on 8 June 2017. Cain, Sian (30 January 2018). "Helen Dunmore wins Costa book of the year for Inside the Wave". The Guardian . Retrieved 23 June 2021.

News And Publicity | Bloodaxe Books". www.bloodaxebooks.com. Archived from the original on 11 June 2017 . Retrieved 5 June 2017. Her early encounter with ballads, hymns and fairy tales can be heard in the music of her poems, particularly in their skilful use of repetition. This consistent characteristic can impart an incantatory quality. Elsewhere, ballad and folklore haunt narratives recast in the light of female experience, such as ‘The butcher’s daughter’ and ‘I owned a woman once’. These qualities make for beguiling listening; even when the subject matter is at its darkest, Dunmore’s unadorned reading style provides a clear medium through which the rhythms of her poems shine. I loved this haunting, elegiac book. The story of Danny’s attempt to remain sane after World War One is deeply believable. In this centenary anniversary of the war’s beginning, we now know so much about the horrors faced by these tragically young soldiers. The Great War poets, Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, and Rudyard Kipling, have chronicled the terrible experiences of those boys.