Veronica Elizabeth Marian Forrest-Thomson (28 November 1947 – 26 April 1975) was a Scottish poet and a critical theorist. Veronica was born in Malaya to a rubber planter, John Forrest Thomson, and his wife, Jean, but grew up in Glasgow, Scotland. She opted to hyphenate her surname, having been published under the name Veronica Forrest initially. She studied at the University of Liverpool (BA, 1968) and Girton College, Cambridge (PhD, 1971). Forrest-Thomson later taught at the universities of Leicester and Birmingham. Forrest-Thomson’s critical study “Poetic Artifice: A Theory of Twentieth-Century Poetry” was published by Manchester University Press in 1978. It was reissued in 2016 by Shearsman Press with notes and an introduction by Gareth Farmer. Her poetry collections included “Identi-kit” (1967), the award-winning “Language-Games” (1971), and the posthumous “On the Periphery” (1976). Subsequent gatherings of her work include Collected Poems and Translations (1990) and Selected Poems (1999). A further Collected Poems, minus the translations, was published in 2008 by Shearsman Books with Allardyce Books.