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This book presents the history and current state of women’s experimental poetry in Britain — a critically neglected, significant body of contemporary writing — and places it within the wider social and political contexts of the period. Ranging from Geraldine Monk’s ventriloquising of the Pendle witches to Denise Riley’s fiercely self-critical lyric poems, from the multimedia experiments of Maggie O’Sullivan to the globally aware, politicised sequences of Andrea Brady and Jennifer Cooke, this book theorises women’s alternative poetry in terms of Julia Kristeva’s idea of ‘women’s time’ and in te ... More
Keywords: experimental poetry, Geraldine Monk, Pendle witches, Denise Riley, Maggie O’Sullivan, Julia Kristeva, lyric poems, Andrea Brady, Jennifer Cooke
Print publication date: 2013 | Print ISBN-13: 9781846319778 |
Published to Liverpool Scholarship Online: May 2014 | DOI:10.5949/liverpool/9781846319778.001.0001 |
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