Martyn Skinner

Martyn Skinner (24 August 1906 – 25 October 1993) was a British poet.[1] He won the 1943 Hawthornden Prize for Letters to Malaya and the Heinemann Award in 1947,[2] for the last volume of that title, or the entire collection.

Skinner was born in Fitzhead, Somerset, in southwest England.[1]

According to John Clute, his "most ambitious works were two long narrative poems", or poem sequences. The Return of Arthur "is set in a Near Future England transformed into a totalitarian Dystopia; but a reborn Arthur from another Dimension returns, and the Matter of Britain is again told as the Millennium approaches". Old Rectory is set in a more distant "Ruined Earth Britain, where a hermit mage named Old Rectory decides to return to society and redeem it".[1]

Skinner's correspondence with the novelist R. C. Hutchinson has been published as Two Men of Letters (1979), OCLC 6815559.

Poems
  • Sir Elfadore and Mabyna: A Poem in Four Cantos (1935), OCLC 7072426
  • Letters to Malaya (1941 to 1947)[1]
  • Two Colloquies (1949) – "The Lobster of the Thatch" and "The Recluse", OCLC 11829050
  • The Return of Arthur: A Poem of the Future (1951 to 1959); assembled and expanded 1966[1]
  • Old Rectory (1970 to 1977)[1]

References
  1. "Skinner, Martyn". Revised August 12, 2018. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (sf-encyclopedia.com). Retrieved 2018-09-04. Entry by 'JC', John Clute.
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  2. The Illustrated London News, Volume 227, Issue 2, 1955, p. 952.
      "It is some years since Mr. Martyn Skinner published his Letters to Malaya, which were commentaries, not entirely favourable, on modern events and customs, written in Popean couplets .... Mr. Martyn Skinner, who was born in 1906, received the Hawthomden prize in 1943 and the Heinemann Award in 1947."


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