Women's Work Modern Women Poets Writing in English
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Eva Salzman is a prize-winning poet, renowned for her formal mastery and original, idiosyncratic style. Her recent volume of Selected Poems (Bloodaxe) was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. She was born in New York City but, like Amy, has lived for many years in the UK as a writer and freelance reviewer. Amy Wack is the Poetry Editor at Seren, one of the top small presses in the UK and the editor of several well-received anthologies. She was Reviews Editor for Poetry Wales for 15 years. She is from California and like Eva attended the Columbia University Writing Programme in the 1980s."A fabulous book ... a case study in anthologizing ... a liberation for the reader." --John Kinsella This is an ambitious piece of work - subtle in its organization, daring in its range. The arguments about women-only anthologies will continue to be debated but there can be little doubt about the richness and diversity of much of the modern poetry being written by women, this lively book is proof of that.A" Warwick Review a wide-ranging selection of very accomplished and authoritative poets and poems [that] have earned a place in posterity's poetry school.A" Artemis Poetry
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Three years in the making, and with over 250 contributors, this generous selection of poetry by women with an emphasis on twentieth-century poetry in English features poets from the USA, Canada, England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Australia, and New Zealand.
In these 'Post-Feminist' times, is there a need for such a book? Is the literary establishment still as dominated by men as it once was? Who gets to decide the canon? Eva Salzman opens Women's Work with a lively polemic, making the case for the women-only anthology with characteristic wit and flair.
Arranged by thematic chapters that touch on various aspects of modern life, this anthology aims to be a touchstone of women's thoughts and experiences; to be entertaining and relevant as well as inclusive and representative of some of the best poetry published now. A thorough section devoted to author biographical details and credits will be of use to scholars and the curious who desire to read more work by the poets included.
The Editors are the well-known poet Eva Salzman, and Poetry Editor Amy Wack, both Americans, graduates of Columbia writing programme in New York City, who have made the UK their home.
You will find familiar names as well as new discoveries amongst the contributors: Fleur Adcock, Patience Agbabi, Moniza Alvi, Margaret Atwood, Sujata Bhatt, Colette Bryce, Siobhan Campbell, Amy Clampitt, Polly Clark, Wendy Cope, Toi Derricotte, Carol Ann Duffy, Christine Evans, U.A. Fanthorpe, Ruth Fainlight, Vicki Feaver, Daisy Fried, Alice Fulton, Tess Gallagher, Louise Gluck, Marilyn Hacker, Joy Harjo, Selima Hill, Kathleen Jamie, June Jordan, Martha Kapos, Jenny Joseph, Jackie Kay, Mimi Khalvati, Alice Oswald, Phillis Levin, Denise Levertov, Gwyneth Lewis, Sandra McPherson, Marianne Moore, Sharon Olds, Ruth Padel, Pascale Petit, Katherine Pierpoint, Sylvia Plath, Adrienne Rich, Muriel Rukeyser, Carol Rumens, Olive Senior, Jo Shapcott, Stevie Smith, Gertrude Stein, Anne Stevenson, Chase Twichell, Judith Wright, Tamar Yoselfof, and many others.
Amy Wack has edited a number of anthologies for Seren including Oxygen and Burning the Bracken, and was for many years Reviews Editor at Poetry Wales magazine.
Eva Salzman is the author of two individual collections, The English Earthquake and Bargain with the Watchman and her Double Crossing: New and Selected Poems has recently appeared.