Berowne's Book was written by U. A. Fanthorpe before she began to
write the poetry that was to make her reputation as one of
England's most popular contemporary poets. 'In 1974, having found
that the way to get a job was to conceal my qualifications,' she
wrote, 'I contrived to be taken on as a clerk/receptionist in a
small hospital.' As a patient at the Radcliffe when she was a
student at Oxford, she'd formed a cheerful view of life in a
hospital, but a neuro-psychiatric hospital provided very different
experiences. It was the shock of discovering this that tipped her
over into poetry. 'Poetry' she said, 'struck during my first month
behind the desk'. With Berowne's Book she had already written a
witty commentary on what she saw around her as she typed. Her
observations are accompanied here by some of her very earliest
poems. Hilarious, tender, profound and deeply humane, this series
of snapshots of hospital life in the 1970s shocks partly because so
much is immediately familiar today.
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