Patricia Beer

Patricia Beer (4 November 1919 – 15 August 1999) was an English poet and critic.
She was born in Exmouth, Devon into a family of Plymouth Brethren. She moved away from her religious background as a young adult, becoming a teacher and academic. She began to write poetry after World War II, while living in Italy; she is most often classified as a 'New Romantic' poet comparable to John Heath-Stubbs. On her own account, however, there is a discontinuity in her work. Devon is a major presence.
She was married twice; first to the writer P.N. Furbank, and then to Damien Parsons, an architect, settling in Upottery, near Honiton, England. From the later 1960s she wrote full-time. She edited several significant anthologies, broadcast, and contributed to literary reviews.

• Loss of the Magyar, and other poems (1959)
• The Survivors (1963) poems
• Just Like the Resurrection (1967) poems
• Mrs. Beer's House (1968) autobiography
• The Estuary (1971) poems
• An Introduction to the Metaphysical Poets (1972)
• Reader: I Married Him (1974) criticism
• Driving West (1975)
• Moon's Ottery (1978)
• Selected Poems (1979)
• The Lie of the Land (1983)
• Collected Poems (1988) poems
• Friends of Heraclitus (1993)
• Autumn (1997) poems
• Abbey Tomb (date unknown)
• The Lost Woman (1983)