Modern Women Poets by Deryn Rees-Jones

Modern Women Poets by Deryn Rees-Jones

An anthology that draws together the work of women poets from Britain, Ireland and America as one version of a history of women's poetic writing, while not isolating women's writing from its intersection with the work of male contemporaries. It allows the reader to trace women's negotiations with one another's work.

A surprising and substantial anthology-- Faith Lawrence * The Poetry House Magazine *
An excellent, comprehensive survey…the headnotes to each poet are interesting and informative. -- Michael Glover * Independent *
She makes her subject matter. It is impossible to read her and remain disengaged, and this is an important achievement. -- Jane Griffiths * Times Literary Supplement *

Deryn Rees-Jones was born in Liverpool with family links to North Wales, where she later studied. She won an Eric Gregory Award in 1993 and The Memory Tray (Seren, 1995) was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. Her other works include Signs Round a Dead Body (Seren, 1998), Quiver (Seren, 2004), and a groundbreaking critical study of twentieth-century women’s poetry, Consorting with Angels (Bloodaxe Books, 2005), which was published alongside her accompanying anthology Modern Women Poets (Bloodaxe Books, 2005). In 2004 she was named as one of Mslexia’s ‘top ten’ women poets of the decade, as well as being chosen as one of the Poetry Book Society’s Next Generation poets. In 2010 she received a Cholmondeley Award from the Society of Authors. Burying the Wren was published in 2012; it was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, and shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize and was a Times Literary Supplement book of the year. A regular collaborator with contemporary artists, her most recent titles are And You, Helen (Seren, 2014), a book and animated poem made with the artist Charlotte Hodes about the wife and widow of the poet Edward Thomas, What It's LIke to be Alive: Selected Poems (Seren, 2016), and a new collection, Erato (Seren, 2019). She is Professor of Poetry at the University of Liverpool, and is the editor of the Pavilion Poetry series for Liverpool University Press.

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ISBN 13	9781852246785
ISBN 10	1852246782
Title	Modern Women Poets
Author	Deryn Rees-Jones
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Year published	2005-10-27
Number of pages	416
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