Limited edition signed by the author
FANTHORPE, U. A. Standing To. Plymouth: Latimer Trend & Company Ltd. 1982.
8vo. Original green cloth with illustrated dust wrapper; pp. 95, [1 (blank)]; in fine condition.
First limited edition, number 39 of 50 copies signed by the author.
Christened a pioneer of society's more forgotten characters, Fanthorpe was a poet who paved the way for other female writers such as Carol Ann Duffy who would refer to Fanthorpe as a 'mother' in her elegy. He named this signed collection of poems after the precarious position of a soldier in the trenches to whom she felt an emotive parallel, "I feel as if I am a forward zone or a trench. I am a lay person in a professional world".
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