Sixty Women Poets by Linda France
This landmark book celebrates two decades of poetry by women from Britain and Ireland, covering all the major gures, from Fleur Adcock to Carol Ann Duffy. Poetry Book Society Special Commendation.
This is full-bodied, full-blooded stuff..there's ambivalence and unease as well as celebration. -- Suzi Feay * Time Out *
Linda France was born in Wallsend, Newcastle upon Tyne, and now lives close to Hadrian’s Wall, near Hexham, in Northumberland. Her eight full-length poetry collections include The Simultaneous Dress (Bloodaxe Books, 2002) and The Toast of the Kit Cat Club (Bloodaxe Books, 2005), a biography in verse of the 18th century traveller and writer Lady Mary Wortley Montagu; book of days, a year renga, with ceramic fragments by Sue Dunne (Smokestack Books, 2009), You are Her (Arc Publications, 2010) and Reading the Flowers (Arc Publications, 2016). Linda also edited the acclaimed anthology Sixty Women Poets (Bloodaxe 1993), a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation. Her poem ‘Bernard and Cerinthe’ won the Poetry Society’s 2013 National Poetry Competition.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781852242527 |
| ISBN 10 | 1852242523 |
| Title | Sixty Women Poets |
| Author | Linda France |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bloodaxe Books Ltd |
| Year published | 1993-09-23 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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