Esmé Hooton

Esmé Gladys Hooton (1914–1992)[1] was an English poet. She is 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.[2][3] Three poems from City Sonnets—"The Prophet," "Poor Bloom," and "At the Touch of Summer"—were included by Geoffrey Grigson in his 1949 anthology Poetry of the Present.[4] Hooton's poem "The Thickening Veil" was set to music by composer Ivor Walsworth, and performed at Wigmore Hall in 1955.[5] Though unpublished for 24 years, Zoo had been featured on BBC Home Service in 1956, read as a sequence with incidental music by Elisabeth Lutyens.[6] Hooton's work was also featured on the Home Service in 1943 and on BBC Radio 3 in 1983.[7][8]

References
  1. "Cremation register summary". Deceased Online. Retrieved 20 November 2020.
  2. Hooton, Esmé (1947). City Sonnets: And Other Poems. London: Routledge.OCLC 10652659
  3. Hooton (1980). Zoo. Hitchin: Mandeville Press. ISBN 9780904533460.
  4. Grigson, Geoffrey, ed. (1949). Poetry of the Present. London: Phoenix House. pp. 121–126.CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)
  5. "London Music". The Musical Times. 96 (1347): 269. May 1955. Retrieved 19 November 2020.
  6. "Zoo". Radio Times (1679). BBC. January 1956. Retrieved 20 November 2020.
  7. "And so to bed". The Radio Times (1042). BBC. September 1943. Retrieved 19 November 2020.
  8. "The Farmstead". The Radio Times (3098). BBC. 24 March 1983. Retrieved 19 November 2020.


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