Patricia Beer

Patricia Beer
Patricia Beer Dry-point by George Adamson RE
Born	4 November 1919 Exmouth, Devon
Died	15 August 1999 (aged 79) Upottery, Devon, England
Alma mater	University of Exeter; University of Oxford
Occupation	Poet and critic
Spouse(s)	P.N. Furbank; then Damien Parsons

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.