Sixty Women Poets [Paperback]

Linda France (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1852242523 | ISBN-13: 978-1852242527 | Publication Date: November 25, 1994

A Poetry Book Society Special Commendation. This anthology charts the irrepressible growth and flowering of women's poetry in Britain and Ireland from the early 1970s to the 90s. Included are many distinctive female voices, no longer apologetic, but courageous, confident, and powerful voices of Eavan Boland, Eiléan Ni Chuilleanáin, Freda Downie, Carol Ann Duffy, U.A. Fanthorpe, Rita Ann Higgins, Kathleen Jamie, Elizabeth Jennings, Jenny Joseph, Jackie Kay, Medbh McGuckian, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, Ruth Padel, Ruth Pitter, Deborah Randall, Carol Rumens, E.J. Scovell, Anne Stevenson, and many others. ""Admirable in breadth and scope"" - Booklist.

Editorial Reviews

From Booklist

Things have certainly changed since Emerson. In his time, British authors laid claim to being central to the tradition of poetry in English. Today, it's a rare poet in America who can name an English contemporary (though the same poet probably can name one from that fellow former colony, Ireland). If anything, as this exemplary anthology shows, influence goes the other way: these British women poets could almost pass for American in their vernacular rhythms, their casual conversationality, their gutsy politics. Although this collection is admirable in breadth and scope, more impressive is the number of sheerly excellent individual poems in it: Fleur Adcock's "The Keepsake," a restrained, heart-stopping elegy; Sujata Bhatt's astonishing "Sherdi," with its voluptuous analogy of sex and eating; Eavan Boland's "Night Feed," a moment of fraught domestic peace; Vicki Feaver's erotic "Marigolds," a floral bacchanal, . . . and so many others. Pat Monaghan

Review

Against Coupling by Karen Fleur Adcock
Counting by Karen Fleur Adcock
Future Work by Karen Fleur Adcock
The Keepsake by Karen Fleur Adcock
Things by Karen Fleur Adcock
About Benwell by Gillian Allnutt
Convent by Gillian Allnutt
Heart Note by Gillian Allnutt
Ode by Gillian Allnutt
I Would Like To Be A Dot In A Painting By Miro by Moniza Alvi
Map Of India by Moniza Alvi
On Finding A Letter To Mrs Vickers On The Pennine Way by Moniza Alvi
The Sari by Moniza Alvi
Rocking by Nuala Archer
Towards Another Terminal by Nuala Archer
Whale On The Line by Nuala Archer
Clothing by Annemarie Austin
Night Bus by Annemarie Austin
Pen And Paper by Annemarie Austin
Shape-shifting by Annemarie Austin
Children's Games by Leland Bardwell
First by Leland Bardwell
Husbands by Leland Bardwell
Lila's Potatoes by Leland Bardwell
Pointless by Leland Bardwell
God Is Dead--nietzsche by Elizabeth (1924-) Bartlett
Mr Zwiegenthal by Elizabeth (1924-) Bartlett
Stretch Marks by Elizabeth (1924-) Bartlett
Themes For Women by Elizabeth (1924-) Bartlett
There Is A Desert Here by Elizabeth (1924-) Bartlett
Election Night by Patricia Beer
In Memory Of Stevie Smith by Patricia Beer
The Lost Woman by Patricia Beer
Return To Sedgemoor by Patricia Beer
The Third Eyelid by Patricia Beer
Comfort by Connie Bensley
Cookery by Connie Bensley
Hyperosmia by Connie Bensley
Politeness by Connie Bensley
Trespass by Connie Bensley
Muliebrity by Sujata Bhatt
Sherdi by Sujata Bhatt
What Is Worth Knowing? by Sujata Bhatt
White Asparagus by Sujata Bhatt
Domestic Interior: 1. Night Feed by Eavan Boland
Domestic Interior: 6. The Muse Mother by Eavan Boland
I Remember by Eavan Boland
An Irish Childhood In England: 1951 by Eavan Boland
Black Dog by Alison Brackenbury
Great Escapes by Alison Brackenbury
Kingdoms by Alison Brackenbury
Produce Of Cyprus by Alison Brackenbury
For All Blue Notes by Jean Binta Breeze
I Poet by Jean Binta Breeze
Spring Cleaning by Jean Binta Breeze
Evening by Heather Buck
Lintel In The Museum At Nikopolis by Heather Buck
Meeting At Monemvassia by Heather Buck
The Poppy by Heather Buck
The Shattering by Heather Buck
Chrissie by Eilean Ni Chuilleanain
Deaths And Engines by Eilean Ni Chuilleanain
Letter To Pearse Hutchinson by Eilean Ni Chuilleanain
The Second Voyage by Eilean Ni Chuilleanain
Swineherd by Eilean Ni Chuilleanain
Breakers Yard by Gillian Clarke
On Air by Gillian Clarke
Overheard In County Sligo by Gillian Clarke
Red Poppy by Gillian Clarke
The Water-diviner by Gillian Clarke
Engineers' Corner by Wendy Cope
My Lover by Wendy Cope
Reading Scheme by Wendy Cope
The Beast by Jeni Couzyn
Dawn by Jeni Couzyn
I Have Seen It Pulsing In Your Veins by Jeni Couzyn
Ye Nymphs! If E'er Your Eyes Were Red by Jeni Couzyn
The Mushroom Gatherer by Hilary Davies
The Ophthalmologist by Hilary Davies
So I Climbed Out Of The Hatch by Hilary Davies
Tattoo In The Convict Camp by Hilary Davies
The Bond by Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill
Household by Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill
Apple Pie In Pizzaland by Maura Dooley
The Celestial Announcer by Maura Dooley
Does It Go Like This? by Maura Dooley
Drought by Maura Dooley
Mansize by Maura Dooley
Gloves by Freda Downie
Her Garden by Freda Downie
Moon by Freda Downie
Mountain Road by Freda Downie
Railway Butterfly by Freda Downie
Litany by Carol Ann Duffy
Standing Female Nude by Carol Ann Duffy
Translating The English, 1989 by Carol Ann Duffy
Valentine by Carol Ann Duffy
Warming Her Pearls by Carol Ann Duffy
A Cow Here In The June Meadow by Helen Dunmore
Privacy Of Rain by Helen Dunmore
Safe Period by Helen Dunmore
Three Ways Of Recovering A Body by Helen Dunmore
Wild Strawberries by Helen Dunmore
Jugged Hare by Jean Earle
Menopause by Jean Earle
To Father And Mother by Jean Earle
Young Girls Running by Jean Earle
Fanfare, Fr. Stations Underground by Ursala Fanthorpe
Not My Best Side by Ursala Fanthorpe
The Poet's Companion by Ursala Fanthorpe
Sisyphus, Fr. Stations Underground by Ursala Fanthorpe
Crab Apple Jelly by Vicki Feaver
The Crack by Vicki Feaver
Judith by Vicki Feaver
Marigolds by Vicki Feaver
Getting Older by Elaine Feinstein
Hayfever by Elaine Feinstein
Muse by Elaine Feinstein
Regret by Elaine Feinstein
Rose by Elaine Feinstein
Urban Lyric by Elaine Feinstein
Double by Elizabeth Garrett
Mother, Baby, Lover by Elizabeth Garrett
Oak Bride by Elizabeth Garrett
Two Floras by Elizabeth Garrett
Doorsteps by Pamela Gillilan
Four Years by Pamela Gillilan
Home Is The Hunter by Pamela Gillilan
Leviathan by Pamela Gillilan
Boris Goes Fishing by Lavinia Greenlaw
Electricity by Lavinia Greenlaw
The Innocence Of Radium by Lavinia Greenlaw
Love From A Foreign City by Lavinia Greenlaw
The Deserter by Rita Ann Higgins
The Did-you-come-yets Of The Western World by Rita Ann Higgins
The German For Stomach by Rita Ann Higgins
Cow by Selima Hill
Desire's A Desire by Selima Hill
Elegy For The Bee-god by Selima Hill
The Unsuccessful Wedding-night by Selima Hill
What Do I Really Believe? by Selima Hill
Brigomaglos, A Christian, Speaks by Frances Horovitz
Child In Cornwall by Frances Horovitz
Evening by Frances Horovitz
January by Frances Horovitz
Rain - Birdoswald by Frances Horovitz
Fountain by Kathleen Jamie
The Queen Of Sheba by Kathleen Jamie
The Way We Live by Kathleen Jamie
Into The Hour by Elizabeth Jennings
Not For Use by Elizabeth Jennings
Rembrandt's Late Self-portraits by Elizabeth Jennings
Transformation by Elizabeth Jennings
The Way Of Words And Language by Elizabeth Jennings
Dawn Walkers by Jennifer Joseph
If You Can't Join Them Beat Them by Jennifer Joseph
Language Teaching: Naming by Jennifer Joseph
Living Off Other People--welfare by Jennifer Joseph
Women At Streatham Hill by Jennifer Joseph
Annunciation by Sylvia Kantaris
Still by Sylvia Kantaris
To A Poet's Anxious Girlfriend by Sylvia Kantaris
Toy Boy by Sylvia Kantaris
Close Shave by Jackie Kay
Other Lovers: She Never Thought She Could With Anyone Else by Jackie Kay
Other Lovers: Swim by Jackie Kay
Other Lovers: The Day You Change by Jackie Kay
Other Lovers: What Was It You Said Again There By The River by Jackie Kay
Other Lovers: When You Move Out by Jackie Kay
Other Lovers: Worse Than That by Jackie Kay
The Red Graveyard by Jackie Kay
Amanuensis by Mimi Khalvati
Rubaiyat by Mimi Khalvati
The Waiting House by Mimi Khalvati
The Grim Sisters by Liz Lochhead
In The Dreamschool by Liz Lochhead
In The Dreamschool: The Prize by Liz Lochhead
In The Dreamschool: The Teachers by Liz Lochhead
Beyond Men by Marion Lomax
The Forked Tree by Marion Lomax
Her Husband Speaks To Her Of Dragons by Marion Lomax
Last Traces by Marion Lomax
The Aphrodisiac by Medbh Mcguckian
A Different Same by Medbh Mcguckian
From The Dressing-room by Medbh Mcguckian
The Hard Summer by Medbh Mcguckian
To My Grandmother by Medbh Mcguckian
Turning The Moon Into A Verb by Medbh Mcguckian
Buying Winkles by Paula Meehan
The Man Who Lives In The Clouds by Paula Meehan
Two Buck Tim From Timbuctoo by Paula Meehan
You Open Your Hands To Me by Paula Meehan
Country Life by Elma Mitchell
The Death Of Adam by Elma Mitchell
Thoughts After Ruskin by Elma Mitchell
Vulnerable by Elma Mitchell
Abra-cadabra by Grace Nichols
Because She Has Come by Grace Nichols
Blackout by Grace Nichols
Configurations by Grace Nichols
Matinee by Julie O'callaghan
The Sounds Of Earth by Julie O'callaghan
Winter: 1. Empress Sadako Considers Snow by Julie O'callaghan
Winter: 2. Silver by Julie O'callaghan
Winter: 3. Men And Precipitation by Julie O'callaghan
Yuppie Considering Life In Her Loft Apartment by Julie O'callaghan
Amniocentesis by Ruth Padel
Angel by Ruth Padel
Saturday Night At The Firehouse by Ruth Padel
The Starling by Ruth Padel
Good Enthroned by Ruth Pitter
Raspberry Nectar by Ruth Pitter
So Good Of Their Kind by Ruth Pitter
Gael Marian by Deborah Randall
The Hare by Deborah Randall
My Favourite Sunday by Deborah Randall
Nightwatchman by Deborah Randall
Flying To Italy by Michele Roberts
Lacrimae Rerum by Michele Roberts
Madwoman At Rodmell by Michele Roberts
Magnificat by Michele Roberts
Temporarily Resident by Michele Roberts
England Nil by Anne Rouse
Her Retirement by Anne Rouse
Night Song by Anne Rouse
Sunset Grill by Anne Rouse
The Uni-gym by Anne Rouse
The First Strokes by Carol-ann Lumley Rumens
Geography Lesson by Carol-ann Lumley Rumens
Last Of The Lays by Carol-ann Lumley Rumens
The Muse Of Argument by Carol-ann Lumley Rumens
Rules For Beginners by Carol-ann Lumley Rumens
Conch by Eva Salzman
The English Earthquake by Eva Salzman
The Refinery by Eva Salzman
Time Out by Eva Salzman
Feast Of Corpus Christi: Warsaw by Carole Satyamurti
Ghost Stations by Carole Satyamurti
My First Cup Of Coffee by Carole Satyamurti
Sex Object by Carole Satyamurti
Deaths Of Flowers by Edith Joy Scovell
The New House by Edith Joy Scovell
The Paschal Moon by Edith Joy Scovell
A Woman Condemned To Virtue by Edith Joy Scovell
Goat by Jo Shapcott
Lies by Jo Shapcott
Motherland by Jo Shapcott
Muse by Jo Shapcott
Phrase Book by Jo Shapcott
Alice by Penelope Diane Shuttle
Five Carp, Two Swans by Penelope Diane Shuttle
Jungian Cows by Penelope Diane Shuttle
Your Girl by Penelope Diane Shuttle
Cocteau And The Equilibrist by Pauline Stainer
The Elderbrides by Pauline Stainer
Piranesi's Fever by Pauline Stainer
The Water Glass by Pauline Stainer
Xochiquetzal by Pauline Stainer
And Even Then by Anne Stevenson
Five Poems Of Innocence And Experience: The Marriage by Anne Stevenson
Making Poetry by Anne Stevenson
The Spirit Is Too Blunt An Instrument by Anne Stevenson
Swifts by Anne Stevenson
Talking Sense To My Senses by Anne Stevenson
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd (November 25, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1852242523
• ISBN-13: 978-1852242527
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.4 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.1 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
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