Gerda Mayer
Gerda Kamilla Mayer (born 9 June 1927) is an English poet born to a Jewish family in Karlsbad, Czechoslovakia. She escaped to England from Prague in 1939, aged eleven, on a Kindertransport flight organized by Trevor Chadwick. Having composed her first poem, in German, at the age of four, she continued her education in Dorset and Surrey and began writing poetry in English. She has published several volumes of verse and her poems have appeared in many anthologies. She has been described by Carol Ann Duffy as a fine poet "who should be better known."
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Gerda Mayer
Gerda Kamilla Mayer (born 9 June 1927) is an English poet born to a Jewish family in Karlsbad, Czechoslovakia. She escaped to England from Prague in 1939, aged eleven, on a Kindertransport flight organized by Trevor Chadwick. Having composed her first poem, in German, at the age of four, she continued her education in Dorset and Surrey and began writing poetry in English. She has published several volumes of verse and her poems have appeared in many anthologies. She has been described by Carol Ann Duffy as a fine poet "who should be better known."
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Gerda Mayer’s poems of return, ...... ality; measured and sustained.
One of the most tactful namers ...... ildren's rhymes for grown-ups.
Reading Mayer frequently feels ...... to be repaid with destruction.
The sadness of her European up ...... e been appropriately compared.
These poems are fun to read an ...... ness. There is sadness too ...
What he liked in her voice
was ...... g water
for rippling his face.
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Arnold Stein father
Erna Stein mother
Johanna Travnicek half-sister
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From "Narcissus",
Maureen Watson
Monkey on the Analyst's Couch, Ceolfrith, 1980
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