Not quite forgotten anymore …

… ‘She was as clever as the clever men’: The lost poetry of Patricia Avis. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

The intense and turbulent relationships she developed with poets Philip Larkin and Richard Murphy, and the tragic circumstances of her death in 1977, have seen her crudely characterised as the ill-fated object of male desire. Yet Avis’s portrayal as a doomed soul belies her active and influential presence among her literary contemporaries, as both a poet and editor in the periodicals of her time.

It would have been nice if the author of this piece had provided more details concerning her “tragic death.”