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On 2022-06-13 4:47 p.m., Victor H. wrote:
> George J. Dance wrote:
>>
>> Penny's Poetry Blog's featured poem for June:
>> In June and Gentle Oven, by Anne Wilkinson
>> [...]
>
>> Then two in one the lovers lie
>> And peel the skin of summer
>> With their teeth
>> And suck its marrow from a kiss
>> [...]
>
>> https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2012/06/june-gentle-oven.html
>
> Quite an interesting poem from a poet who is new to me, I thank you for
> continuing to expose the obscure in poetry history...!

She certainly is not well-known, even in Canada. She died young, at 51,
with just two books published. The second book came out in 1955, so it's
almost as old as I am; it's long been out of print, so thanks to
copyright laws and lack of the internet, there's been little way to
discover her.

I've seen "June" in anthologies, but that's all I read until recently.
This year, though, I found her first chapbook online, and I'll be
blogging a couple more of her poems, probably in August and January or
February.