Georgina Hammick: Difference between revisions

Hammick began publishing poetry in magazines and anthologies in the 1970s, and was one of five poets whose work appeared in ''A Poetry Quintet'' (1976).<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p5kaAAAAMAAJ&newbks=0&printsec=frontcover&dq=a+poetry+quintet+georgina+hammick&q=a+poetry+quintet+georgina+hammick&hl=en |title=British Book News |date=1977 |publisher=British Council |language=en}}</ref> <ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QbCZAAAAIAAJ&newbks=0&printsec=frontcover&dq=a+poetry+quintet+georgina+hammick&q=a+poetry+quintet+georgina+hammick&hl=en |title=Outposts |date=1978 |publisher=H. Sergeant |language=en}}</ref> Her poems were singled out by one reviewer as 'clean, unpretending, to the point, and unusually assured in their restraint'.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Publications |first=Europa Europa |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EcinRfSQImAC&newbks=0&printsec=frontcover&pg=PA669&dq=a+poetry+quintet+georgina+hammick&hl=en |title=International Who's Who in Poetry 2005 |date=2004 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=978-1-85743-269-5 |language=en}}</ref> For many years she took part in the [[The Poetry Society|Poetry Society]]'s 'Poet in Schools' scheme<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=azFnAAAAMAAJ&newbks=0&printsec=frontcover&dq=poetry+society+georgina+hammick&q=poetry+society+georgina+hammick&hl=en |title=New Poetry |date=1976 |publisher=Arts Council of Great Britain. |isbn=978-0-7287-0109-0 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Tracy |first=Lorna |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7zIkAAAAMAAJ&newbks=0&printsec=frontcover&dq=poetry+society+georgina+hammick&q=poetry+society+georgina+hammick&hl=en |title=Best Short Stories from Stand Magazine |last2=Silkin |first2=Jon |last3=Wardle |first3=John |date=1988 |publisher=Methuen Paperback |isbn=978-0-413-18410-8 |language=en}}</ref>, and she contributed to [[Gavin Ewart]]'s anthology of 'Other People's Clerihetos' (1983).<ref>{{Cite book |last=Society |first=Poetry Book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=S-xZAAAAMAAJ&newbks=0&printsec=frontcover&dq=a+poetry+quintet+georgina+hammick&q=a+poetry+quintet+georgina+hammick&hl=en |title=Poetry Supplement |date=1978 |publisher=The Society |language=en}}</ref> Once her children had 'more or less' grown up, she began writing short stories.

''People for Lunch'' won the Stand Magazine Short Story Competition in 1985<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TArzAAAAMAAJ&newbks=0&printsec=frontcover&dq=people+for+lunch+georgina+hammick&q=people+for+lunch+georgina+hammick&hl=en |title=Stand Magazine |date=1991 |language=en}}</ref>, and became the title-story of her first volume, which was published by [[Methuen Publishing|Methuen]] in 1987 to enormously enthusiastic reviews.<ref>{{Cite web |last=OpenLibrary.org |title=People for lunch (1996 edition) {{!}} Open Library |url=https://openlibrary.org/works/OL2827929W/People_for_Lunch |access-date=2023-02-10 |website=Open Library |language=en}}</ref> The literary critic [[Kate Kellaway]] wrote that 'if ever there were a sympathetic, bittersweet tale for Christmas, or for anyone flinching at the prospect of entertaining at any time of year, the title story in this best-selling debut collection is it.'<ref>{{Cite news |last=Kellaway |first=Kate |date=2014-12-24 |title=Families in literature: The Nightingales in People for Lunch by Georgina Hammick |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2014/dec/24/families-in-books-the-nightingales-in-people-for-lunch-by-georgina-hammick |access-date=2023-02-10 |issn=0261-3077}}</ref>