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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786406303321

Autore

Kennedy David <1959->

Titolo

Women's experimental poetry in Britain 1970-2010 : body, time & locale / / by David Kennedy and Christine Kennedy [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Liverpool : , : Liverpool University Press, , 2013

ISBN

1-78138-110-0

1-78138-577-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 192 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Poetry & ...

Disciplina

821.914

Soggetti

English poetry - Women authors - 20th century

English poetry - Women authors - 21st century

English poetry - 20th century - History and criticism

English poetry - 21st century - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Aug 2017).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

; Part 1. Contexts -- Increasing presence: with some notes on categories and methods -- Terms of engagement: experimental poetry and its others -- Critical histories -- ; Part 2. Poetries -- Veronica Forrest-Thomson and Wendy Mulford: lyric transformations -- Geraldine Monk: supernatural soundscapes and Interregnum -- Denise Riley: corporeal and desiring spaces -- Maggie O'Sullivan: 'Declensions of the non' -- Harriet Tarlo, Elizabeth Bletsoe and Helen Macdonald: 'Being outside' -- Caroline Bergvall, Elizabeth Janes/Frances Presley and Redell Olsen: virtual spaces -- Younger wonen poets 1: Anna Mendelssohn, Emily Critchley and Sophie Robinson -- Younger women poets 2: Marianne Morris, Andrea Brady and Jennifer Cooke.

Sommario/riassunto

Women's Experimental Poetry in Britain 1970-2010: Body, Time and Locale presents the history and current state of 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 ventriloquizing of the Pendle witches to Denise Riley's fiercely self-critical lyric poems, from the multi-media experiments of Maggie O'Sullivan to the globally aware, politicised sequences of Andrea Brady



and Jennifer Cooke, David Kennedy and Christine Kennedy theorise women's alternative poetries in terms of Julia Kristeva's idea of 'women's time' and in terms of the female poetic voice constantly negotiating with dominant systems of representation. They also offer a much-needed re-theorising of the value of avant garde practices.