Anna Butt

Anna Butt was born in West London and studied art at Harrow Art School and Hornsey College of Art. In 1947 she married the painter Norman Adams, moving to Butts Cottage at Horton in Ribblesdale Yorkshire  in 1955. She has worked as an art teacher, pottery designer, and latterly as a freelance writer, while still drawing, painting and making ceramic works.

Adams puts ... pregnant ewes, snow drifts, rowan trees in bloom and ancient names for wildflowers ... into the most unexpected poetic shapes: terza rima, Sapphics, villanelles, Horatian stanzas, etc. Instead of seeming ill-matched, her material and her forms nourish each other, and the reader encounters a perhaps over-familiar North Country world in a fresh livery.’

Peter Porter of the Observer writing on her book Green Resistance