Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Jo Shapcott
Standard Name: Shapcott, Jo
Birth Name: Jo Shapcott
JS
is a poet of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, who has also published anthologies, verse for music, and a book of critical prose based on a lecture series.
Since this year, 2007, CR
has been picking a Poem of the Week for the Guardian newspaper, which prints the poem along with her commentary and analysis. Rumens like to pay attention to context and...
Intertextuality and Influence
Ruth Padel
RP
dedicated the volume to her partner Michael Black
, but the opening poem and one other are dedicated to Irish poet Matthew Sweeney
.
Padel, Ruth. Angel. Bloodaxe.
prelims
The collection (many of whose contents had appeared, often...
Literary responses
Ruth Padel
Her fellow-poet Jo Shapcott
praised the introduction for being a summary of the age as well as of approaches to poetry. Shapcott wrote that she had seen no description of where and who we are...
The Leamington Poetry Society
published a 4-page leaflet (plus cover) of EJ
's poems, titled with her name, in March 1987.
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Twelve years later the British Council
published an audiocassette of poetry which features her...
Reception
Kathleen Jamie
KJ
has said that now, having all the time, money (a two-year grant from the Scottish Arts Council
), and confidence she needs, she feels able to say, I'm a poet and this is what...
She co-operated with others in many further works. She appeared with Tony Lopez
in Mortal Heart, 1981. In 1994 she participated in two joint projects: Painter and Poet: Three Poems (limited edition), where her...
Textual Production
Carol Ann Duffy
CAD
continued to use her position for the voicing of strong political opinions. On 25 July 2009 The Guardian's Review section opened with three pages of poems on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan...
Textual Features
Carol Ann Duffy
The sixty poets were each commissioned for a poem marking a particular year. They included Gillian Clarke
(1955: Running Away to the Sea), Ruth Fainlight
(1963: World Events), Liz Lochhead
(1966: Photograph, Art...
Textual Production
Wendy Cope
Judging a poetry competition for Mslexia magazine in 2006, WC
regretted the small number of poems in traditional forms, and the even smaller number of successful ones. She voiced her disagreement with Jo Shapcott
(writing...
Textual Production
Gillian Clarke
GC
was one of ten poets gathered by Carol Ann Duffy
in spring 2013 to spend two weeks, one in each of ten museums in Cambridge, and to craft a poem relating to the museum...
Textual Features
Christine Brooke-Rose
Here CBR
's interest tips strongly away from content towards form, though she acknowledges that an attachment to form that excludes all else is totally withering.
Brooke-Rose, Christine. Invisible Author: Last Essays. Ohio State University Press.
Astley, Neil. “Elizabeth Bishop: A Bibliography; Elizabeth Bishop: Chronology”. Elizabeth Bishop: Poet of the Periphery, edited by Linda Anderson and Jo Shapcott, Bloodaxe Books, pp. 175-00.
198, 199, 200
Timeline
January 1986: Poems on the Underground, brainchild of Judith...
Writing climate item
January 1986
Poems on the Underground
, brainchild of Judith Chernaik
, was launched at a ceremony at Aldwych Station. This group arranges the display of single short poems among advertisements in London underground trains.
1998-9: In a league table of sales in verse for these...
Writing climate item
1998-9
In a league table of sales in verse for these years, published by the Guardian in October 2000, Ted Hughes
was the highest with 172,174, Seamus Heaney
second with 34,690, and Carol Ann Duffy
third...
14 May 2013: The Zoological Society of London (better...
Writing climate item
14 May 2013
The Zoological Society of London
(better known as the London Zoo
) launched a series of Writers Talks, in which a professuonal writer joined with a scientist and a zoo-keeper to talk about a particular...
Texts
Deane, Nichola. “’Everything a Poet Should Be’: Elizabeth Bishop in Her Letters”. Elizabeth Bishop: Poet of the Periphery, edited by Linda Anderson and Jo Shapcott, Bloodaxe Books, 2002, pp. 143-58.
Shapcott, Jo. “Confounding Geography”. Contemporary Women’s Poetry: reading/writing/practice, edited by Alison Mark and Deryn Rees-Jones, St Martin’s Press, 2000, pp. 40-6.
Shapcott, Jo. “Confounding Geography”. Elizabeth Bishop: Poet of the Periphery, edited by Linda Anderson and Jo Shapcott, Bloodaxe Books, 2002, pp. 113-18.
Shapcott, Jo. Electroplating the Baby. Bloodaxe, 1988.
Astley, Neil. “Elizabeth Bishop: A Bibliography; Elizabeth Bishop: Chronology”. Elizabeth Bishop: Poet of the Periphery, edited by Linda Anderson and Jo Shapcott, Bloodaxe Books, 2002, pp. 175-00.
Page, Barbara. “Elizabeth Bishop: Stops, Starts and Dreamy Divagations”. Elizabeth Bishop: Poet of the Periphery, edited by Linda Anderson and Jo Shapcott, Bloodaxe Books, 2002, pp. 12-30.
Shapcott, Jo. Her Book: Poems 1988-1998. Faber and Faber, 2000.
Anderson, Linda. “Introduction”. Elizabeth Bishop: Poet of the Periphery, edited by Linda Anderson and Jo Shapcott, Bloodaxe Books, 2002, pp. 7-11.
Shapcott, Jo. “Love in the lab”. Guardian Unlimited.
Shapcott, Jo. “Making a Poem”. Mxlexia, No. 38, p. 22.
Shapcott, Jo. My Life Asleep. Oxford University Press, 1998.
Shapcott, Jo. Of Mutability. Faber and Faber, 2010.
Shapcott, Jo. Phrase Book. Oxford University Press, 1992.
Shapcott, Jo. Tender Taxes. Faber and Faber, 2001.
Donaghy, Michael. “The Exile’s Accent”. Elizabeth Bishop: Poet of the Periphery, edited by Linda Anderson and Jo Shapcott, Bloodaxe Books, 2002, pp. 119-22.
Stevenson, Anne. “The Geographical Mirror”. Elizabeth Bishop: Poet of the Periphery, edited by Linda Anderson and Jo Shapcott, Bloodaxe Books, 2002, pp. 31-41.
Anderson, Linda. “The Story of the Eye: Elizabeth Bishop and the Limits of the Visual”. Elizabeth Bishop: Poet of the Periphery, edited by Linda Anderson and Jo Shapcott, Bloodaxe Books, 2002, pp. 159-74.
Rees-Jones, Deryn. “Writing ELIZABETH”. Elizabeth Bishop: Poet of the Periphery, edited by Linda Anderson and Jo Shapcott, Bloodaxe Books, 2002, pp. 42-62.