Heather Buck
{{Short description|English poet (1926–2004)}}
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Heather Buck (1926–2004), born Heather Entwistle, was an English poet.
Life
She was born in 1926 in Kent, England.{{Cite book|title=Contemporary Women Poets|publisher=Gale|year=1998}} In 1952, she married Hadley Buck and they had two children.
During her life, she had many careers, including cartographer for the War Department in London from 1942 to 1945; town planner for Ministry of Town and Country Planning in London from 1945 to 1947, in the Essex County Planning Department in Chelmsford from 1947 to 1949, and for the London City Council from 1949 to 1952.
She started writing poetry in 1966, after she participated in Jungian analysis.{{Cite book|title=The Cambridge guide to women's writing in England|last=Germaine.|first=Greer|last2=Elaine.|first2=Showalter|date=1999-01-01|publisher=Cambridge university press|isbn=9780521668132|oclc=848840673}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?owner_id=1394|title=Carcanet Press – Heather Buck|website=carcanet.co.uk|access-date=2017-01-10}} She died in 2004.{{Cite web|title = Heather Buck – Anvil Press Poetry – Poetry in English and translation – Poetry Publisher – London|url = http://www.anvilpresspoetry.com/authors.asp?id=62|website = anvilpresspoetry.com|accessdate = 2015-12-16|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151222115418/http://www.anvilpresspoetry.com/authors.asp?id=62|archive-date = 22 December 2015|url-status = dead}}
Influences
Buck identified her major influences as T.S. Eliot, followed by Wallace Stevens and Rainer Rilke.
Works
= Poetry =
- The Opposite Direction. London, Outposts Publications, 1971, {{ISBN|978-0720501322}}
- At the Window. London, Anvil Press, 1982, {{ISBN|978-0856460715}}
- The Sign of the Water Bearer. London, and Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, Anvil Press, 1987, {{ISBN|978-0856461934}}
- Psyche Unbound. London, Anvil Press, 1995, {{ISBN|978-0856462603}}
- Waiting for the Ferry. London, Anvil Press, 1998, {{ISBN|978-0856463082}}
= Other =
- T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets (essay). London, Agenda Editions, 1996, {{ISBN|978-0902400580}}
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Category:20th-century English poets
Category:20th-century English women writers
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