Denise Levertov

Denise Levertov was born in Ilford, Essex, England, on October 24, 1923. She wrote her first book, The Double Image (Cresset Press, 1946), while she was between the ages of seventeen and twenty-one. Levertov went on to publish more than twenty volumes of poetry, including The Freeing of the Dust (New Directions, 1975), which won the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. She spent the last decade of her life in Seattle, during which time she published Sands of the Well (New Directions, 1996); Evening Train (New Directions, 1992); A Door in the Hive (New Directions, 1989); Poems 1968–1972 (New Directions, 1987); and Breathing the Water (J. Laughlin, 1987). Levertov died in Seattle on December 20, 1997. New Directions published This Great Unknowing: Last Poems in 1999 and The Collected Poems of Denise Levertov in 2013. (Source)