Esmé Hooton
Esmé Gladys Hooton (1914–1992) was an English poet.
Biography
[edit]Hooton was born in Lewisham, London in 1914.
Hooton was 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.[1][2] Three poems from City Sonnets—"The Prophet," "Poor Bloom," and "At the Touch of Summer"—were also included by Geoffrey Grigson in his 1949 anthology Poetry of the Present.[3]
Hooton's poem "The Thickening Veil" was set to music by composer Ivor Walsworth, and performed at Wigmore Hall in London during 1955.[4] Though unpublished for 24 years, Zoo had been featured on BBC Home Service in 1956, read as a sequence with incidental music by Elisabeth Lutyens.[5] Hooton's work was also featured on the Home Service in 1943 and on BBC Radio 3 in 1983.[6][7]
She died in 1992.[8]
References
[edit]- ^ Hooton, Esmé (1947). City Sonnets: And Other Poems. London: Routledge.OCLC 10652659
- ^ Hooton, Esmé (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. doi:10.2307/938532. JSTOR 938532. Retrieved 19 November 2020.
- ^ "Zoo". The 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.
- ^ "Cremation register summary". Deceased Online. Retrieved 20 November 2020.
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