The tone is set by Urban Lyric, which relates poetry to survival: the gaunt lady of the service wash, because she has just come through an operation for cancer, is made alert to the...
Textual Features
Elaine Feinstein
This collection provides an opportunity to consider EF
's earlier poetry-writing decades as a whole. Her vision is centred in everyday life, but that includes the continued presence of the past, of artists living and...
Textual Production
Elaine Feinstein
The translations are from Marina Tsvetayeva
. EF
's own topics notably include women's lives, the struggle to fill expected roles like those of wife and mother, and the play of conflicting emotions.
Intertextuality and Influence
Germaine Greer
The chapters are headed with quotations ranging eclectically through the international canon and counter-canon from Sophocles
and The Ramayana of Valmiki (an ancient Indian epic) to Spike Milligan
, via Charles Baudelaire
, T. S. Eliot
Intertextuality and Influence
Jo Shapcott
This volume (with epigraph from William Carlos Williams
) includes more Mad Cow poems, together with a number of animal poems, like Pig, Hedgehog, Rhinoceros. JS
's intensely sensuous imagination issues in...
