| Description |
xxiv, 275 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Acknowledgements ix -- Copyright Permissions x -- Contributors xii -- Preface xv -- ISOBEL ARMSTRONG -- Introduction: Looking On, Looking Back xxi -- -- 1 Defending the Freedom of the Poet/Music Under the Skin 1 -- ANNE STEVENSON -- -- 2 How and Why 12 -- RUTH PADEL -- -- 3 Home Fires 18 -- SUSAN WICKS -- -- 4 The Poet's Dilemma: A Murder Mystery 23 -- GWYNETH LEWIS -- -- 5 God's Velvet Cushions 26 -- SELIMA HILL -- -- 6 Hospitalspeak: The Neuro-psychiatric Unit 31 -- U.A. FANTHORPE -- -- 7 The Least International Shop in the World 35 -- MONIZA ALVI -- -- 8 Confounding Geography 40 -- JO SHAPCOTT -- -- 9 Riverrunning (realisations For Charles Bernstein 47 -- MAGGIE O'SULLIVAN -- -- 10 'Nothing That Is Not There and the Nothing That Is' 58 -- DERYN REES-JONES -- -- 11 Writing About Writing About Writing (About Writing) 64 -- ALISON MARK -- -- 12 Poetic Licence 76 -- HELEN CARR -- -- -- -- -- 13 'Nothing to Do with Eternity'? Adrienne Rich, -- Feminism and Poetry 101 -- JANET MONTEFIORE -- -- 14 Marking Time: Fanny Howe's Poetics of Transcendence 119 -- CLAIR WILLS -- -- 15 Body and Soul: The Power of Sharon Olds 140 -- VICKI FEAVER -- -- 16 Beyond Interpellation? Affect, Embodiment and the -- Poetics of Denise Riley 157 -- CAROL WATTS -- -- 17 Personal Politics in the Poetry of Carol Rumens: -- A Comparison with Denise Levertov 173 -- MARION LOMAX -- -- 18 'The Stain of Absolute Possession': The Postcolonial -- in the Work of Eavan Boland 189 -- ROSE ATFIELD -- -- 19 'Now I Am Alien': Immigration and the Discourse -- of Nation in the Poetry of Carol Ann Duffy 208 -- LINDA A. KINNAHAN -- -- 20 'Curious Rarities? The Work of Kathleen Jamie and -- Jackie Kay 226 -- JOANNE WINNING -- 21 'A She Even Smaller Than a Me': Gender Dramas of the -- Contemporary Avant-Garde 247 -- HARRIET TARLO |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Women poets, American -- Interviews.
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American poetry -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
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English poetry -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Poetry -- Authorship.
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Women poets, English -- 20th century -- Interviews.
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Women poets, American -- 20th century -- Interviews.
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Women poets, English -- History and criticism.
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Women poets, English -- Interviews.
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English poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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| Genre/Form |
Interviews.
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| Author |
Rees-Jones, Deryn.
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Mark, Alison, 1949-
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| LC no. |
00035394 |
| ISBN |
0333734386 paperback |
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0333734378 hardback |
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0312235356 St. Martin's Press |
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