MacInnes, Mairi (poet, writer) — Library

Mairi MacInnes (1925-2017) was born in Co. Durham and educated in Yorkshire and at Oxford. Towards the end of World War Two she served with the Women’s Royal Naval Service. Her first book of poetry, Splinters: Twenty-Six Poems (1953) was one of a series printed by The School of Art at the University of Reading. After marrying John McCormick, she lived in Berlin and the United States. As well as some nine collections of her poetry, she wrote two novels and Clearances, a memoir. She received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, and an Ingram-Merrill Fellowship. She received an Honorary Doctorate in recognition of her lifetime’s work from the University of York in 2014. Two Rivers Press published Amazing Memories of Childhood, Etc., her final collection, in 2016.

(courtesy of Two Rivers Press: https://Poet of the Week – 19: Mairi MacInnes – Two Rivers Press)

The library was donated by The Estate of Mairi MacInnes and includes memoirs, novels, anthologies and poetry journals.

The library collection is fully catalogued and available on Enterprise

Associated collections: Peter Robinson Collection