Book contents
- Frontmatter
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Post/Modernist rhythms and voices: Edith Sitwell and Stevie Smith to Jo Shapcott and Selima Hill
- 3 Reframing women’s war poetry
- 4 Verbal and visual art in twentieth-century British women’s poetry
- 5 Towards a new confessionalism
- 6 The mid-Atlantic imagination: Mina Loy, Ruth Fainlight, Anne Stevenson, Anne Rouse and Eva Salzman
- 7 The Irish history wars and Irish women’s poetry: Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin and Eavan Boland
- 8 Interculturalism: Imtiaz Dharker, Patience Agbabi, Jackie Kay and contemporary Irish poets
- 9 Post-pastoral perspectives on landscape and culture
- 10 Feminism’s experimental ‘work at the language-face’
- 11 Carol Ann Duffy, Medbh McGuckian and ruptures in the lines of communication
- Selected reading
- Index
Index
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 May 2011
- Frontmatter
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Post/Modernist rhythms and voices: Edith Sitwell and Stevie Smith to Jo Shapcott and Selima Hill
- 3 Reframing women’s war poetry
- 4 Verbal and visual art in twentieth-century British women’s poetry
- 5 Towards a new confessionalism
- 6 The mid-Atlantic imagination: Mina Loy, Ruth Fainlight, Anne Stevenson, Anne Rouse and Eva Salzman
- 7 The Irish history wars and Irish women’s poetry: Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin and Eavan Boland
- 8 Interculturalism: Imtiaz Dharker, Patience Agbabi, Jackie Kay and contemporary Irish poets
- 9 Post-pastoral perspectives on landscape and culture
- 10 Feminism’s experimental ‘work at the language-face’
- 11 Carol Ann Duffy, Medbh McGuckian and ruptures in the lines of communication
- Selected reading
- Index
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011