Alison Fell

Alison Fell (born 1944 in Dumfries, Scotland) is a Scottish poet and novelist with a particular interest in women's roles and political victims. Her poems have appeared in many anthologies. Her children's books also pass on social messages.

Life and work Alison Fell was educated at Dumfries Academy and Edinburgh Art College, from which she graduated as a sculptor.

She worked at the underground newspaper Ink, and contributed to Spare Rib.

Fell's poems "speak for women, activists and political victims" and have been much anthologized. Her children's books Grey Dancer (1981) and The Bad Box (1987) "deal with growing up in left-wing working-class families." Kisses for Mayakovsky (1984) is a volume of them, and Every Move You Make, published in the same year, is an autobiographical novel. She also contributed about herself in Truth, Dare or Promise: Girls Growing up in the Fifties (1985, edited by Liz Heron).

Awards 1984: Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize for Kisses for Mayakovsky 1991: Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature for Mer de Glace 2002–2003: Royal Literary Fund Fellowship

Works Poetry

Novels

Anthology

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