Contemporary Women's Poetry: Reading/Writing/Practice

by Alison Mark (Editor), Deryn Rees-Jones (Editor)

Overview

Contemporary Women's Poetry: Reading/Writing/Practice offers a unique opportunity to view the work of a range of important contemporary women poets from two perspectives: that of poets themselves, and that of a group of women critics, who contextualize, analyze, and situate poems by practitioners in England, Ireland, North America, Scotland, and Wales.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780312235352
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date:	11/28/2000
Edition description:	REV
Pages:	301
Product dimensions:	5.60(w) x 8.78(h) x 0.92(d)

About the Author

Alison Mark is Research Fellow and Lecturer in English at Brunel University College . Deryn Rees-Jones is Lecturer in English and Creative Writing at Liverpool Hope University College.

Table of Contents

Defending the Freedom of the Poet/Music Under the Skin--Anne Stevenson
How and Why--Ruth Padel
Home Fires--Susan Wicks
The Poet's Dilemma: A Murder Mystery--Gwyneth Lewis
God's Velvet Cushions--Selima Hill
Hospitalspeak: The Neuro-Psychiatric Unit--U.A. Fanthorpe
The Last International Shop in the World--Moniza Alvi
Confounding Geography--Jo Shapcott
Riverrunning (Realizations) --Maggie O'Sullivan
'Nothing That Is Not There and the Nothing That Is'--Deryn Rees-Jones
Writing About Writing About Writing (About Writing)--Alison Mark
Poetic License--Helen Carr
'Nothing to Do with Eternity?--Adrienne Rich, Feminism and Poetry
Marking Time: Fanny Howe's Poetics of Transcendence--Clair Wills
'Body and Soul': The Power of Sharon Olds--Vicki Feaver
Beyond Interpellation? Affect, Embodiment and the Poetics of Denise Riley--Carol Watts
Personal Politics in the Poetry of Carol Rumens: A Comparison with Denise Levertov--Marion Lomax
'The Stain of Absolute Possession': The Postcolonial in the Work of Eavan Boland--Rose Atfield
'Now I Am Alien : Immigration and the Discourse of Nation in the Poetry of Carol Ann Duffy--Linda Kinnahan
Curious Rarities? The Work of Kathleen Jamie and Jackie Kay--Joanne Winning
'A She Even Smaller Than a Me': Gender Dramas of the Contemporary Avant-Garde--Harriet Tarlo

Editorial Reviews

Women poets discuss their writing practice and the reasons for their poetic strategies; and literary critics contextualize, analyze, and situate the work of a wide range of contemporary women poets in England, Ireland, North America, Scotland, and Wales. Among their topics are defending the freedom of the poet, the least international shop in the world, and personal politics in the poetry of Carol Rumens compared to Denise Levertov. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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