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Gerda Kamilla Mayer (geboren als Gerda Stein, 9. Juni 1927 in Karlsbad, Tschechoslowakei; gestorben 15. Juli 2021 in London) war eine tschechoslowakisch-britische Holocaustüberlebende und Lyrikerin. Gerda Kamilla Mayer (9 June 1927 – 15 July 2021) was 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 organised 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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Reading Mayer frequently feels like reading William Blake's Songs of Experience . Take, for example, "Children with Candles" : ... Here, as in Blake's poems, the vulnerability of innocence is juxtaposed with brutal experience. Blake's romantic faith in social amelioration has, however, been superseded by Mayer's post-Holocaust apprehension that innocence is likely to be repaid with destruction. One of the most tactful namers of the Holocaust ... but her poems of everyday disenchantment are deepened by a powerful bitterness. She is funny but never a stand-up comedian. Like Stevie Smith she writes children's rhymes for grown-ups. The sadness of her European uprooting haunts all her poems; yet ... she speaks of a bitterness and loneliness that has bodied itself in very local forms. The tradition she works best in is altogether English, that is to say, often whimsical or playing with fairytale metaphor, sometimes using nursery rhyme and rhythms, sometimes, as in "The Lumpy and Oafish Girl", declaring her debt to Stevie Smith, a poet with whom she has more than once been appropriately compared. What he liked in her voice was his name called over & over and the mirrorlike look in the weeping eyes of his lover; ... Changed to a flower he stood by the river a sad case of rooted vanity; he never forgave the reflecting water for rippling his face. These poems are fun to read and evoke memories of the bedtime stories of childhood, deliciously balanced between cosiness and fear. ... Some poems are bawdy, some bizzare; all seize their meaning confidently, without inhibition. ... She has the gift of debunking seriousness and poetic preciousness. There is sadness too ... Gerda Mayer's poems of return, like all her writings, seem simple and plainly done. There are no great flourishes or turns of style, and her poems may look lightly or casually written. But they have a powerful, ironic, pouncing effect, which is hard to describe but easy to feel. ... This seems to me poetry of unmistakable high quality; measured and sustained.
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Johanna Travnicek half-sister Arnold Stein father Erna Stein mother
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Monkey on the Analyst's Couch, Ceolfrith, 1980 Peter Lawson dbr:Elaine_Feinstein A. C. Jacobs dbr:Peter_Porter_(poet) Maureen Watson From "Narcissus",
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Gerda Kamilla Mayer (9 June 1927 – 15 July 2021) was 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 organised 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." Gerda Kamilla Mayer (geboren als Gerda Stein, 9. Juni 1927 in Karlsbad, Tschechoslowakei; gestorben 15. Juli 2021 in London) war eine tschechoslowakisch-britische Holocaustüberlebende und Lyrikerin.
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