Contemporary Women''s Poetry : Reading/Writing/Practice

Contemporary Women's Poetry is a unique resource for students, teachers, and anyone interest in contemporary poetry.

Titles for Abbreviation Introduction Defending the Freedom of the Poet/Music Under the Skin; A.Stevenson The How and the Why; R.Padel Home Fires; S.Wicks The Poet''s Dilemma: A Murder Mystery; G.Lewis God''s Velvet Cushions; S.Hill Hospitalspeak: The Neuro-psychiatric Unit; U.A.Fanthorpe The Least International Shop in the World; M.Alvi Confounding Geography; J.Shapcott Riverrunning (Realisations); M.O''Sullivan ''Nothing that is not There and the Nothing that is''; D.Rees-Jones Writing about Writing about Writing (about Writing); A.Mark Poetic Licence; H.Carr ''Nothing to do with Eternity''? Adrienne Rich, Feminism and Poetry; J.Montefiore Marking Time: Fanny Howe''s Poetics of Transcendence; C.Wills ''Body and Soul'': the Power of Sharon Olds; V.Feaver ''Beyond Interpellation? Affect, Embodiment and the Poetics of Denise Riley; C.Watts Personal Politics in the Poetry of Carol Rumens and Denise Levertov; M.Lomax ''The Stain of Absolute Possession'': The Postcolonial in the Work of Eavan Boland; R.Atfield ''Now I am Alien '': Immigration and the Discourse of Nation in the Poetry of Carol Ann Duffy; L.Kinnahan ''Curious Rarities''? The Work of Kathleen James and Jackie Kay; J.Winning ''A she even Smaller than Me'': Gender Dreams of the Contemporary Avant-Garde; H.Tarlo Index