Padel, Ruth. “How and Why”. Contemporary Women’s Poetry, edited by Alison Mark and Deryn Rees-Jones, Macmillan Press; St Martin’s Press, 2000, pp. 12-17.
Deryn Rees-Jones
Standard Name: Rees-Jones, Deryn
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Anthologization | Jo Shapcott | Neil Astley
selected for his anthology Staying Alive, 2002, JS
's poem Goat. She also features in Deryn Rees-Jones
's anthology Modern Women Poets, 2006 (and in its companion critical volume, Consorting... |
| Anthologization | Ruth Padel | In the same year a volume edited by Alison Mark
and Deryn Rees-Jones
entitled Contemporary Women's Poetry: Reading/Writing/Practice included a contribution by RP
called How and Why. |
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Bishop | Sylvia Plath
, who began with negative comments about EB
, later developed admiration for her fine originality, always surprising, never rigid, flowing, juicier than Marianne Moore
who is her godmother. qtd. in Rees-Jones, Deryn. “Writing ELIZABETH”. Elizabeth Bishop: Poet of the Periphery, edited by Linda Anderson and Jo Shapcott, Bloodaxe Books, 2002, pp. 42-62. 44 |
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Bishop | The strength of EB
's influence on British and Irish poetry was variously recognised during the 1980s by Andrew Motion
, Seamus Heaney
, James Fenton
, and Eavan Boland
, and during the 1990s... |
| Literary responses | Kate Clanchy | Deryn Rees-Jones
, reviewing for The Independent, expressed admiration for KC
's technique, language, imagery, and her success in capturing the bewilderment, and scratchy impatience, of being a parent. Her supple, textured writing is... |
| Literary responses | Carol Ann Duffy | CAD
was awarded an OBE in 1995. In 1999 she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She was created a CBE in the New Year's Honours List at the end of... |
| Literary responses | Selima Hill | Critic Deryn Rees-Jones
remarks that SH
's dreamlike and surreal material demands that the reader respond both viscerally and intellectually. Rees-Jones, Deryn. “My Love and Other Animals”. Mslexia, Vol. 14 , 1 June–30 Nov. 2002, p. 43. 43 |
| Literary responses | Selima Hill | Reviewer Fiona Sampson
called SH[a]rguably the most distinctive truth teller to emerge in British poetry, remarked that her originality had sometimes scared off critical scrutineers, and praised her flamboyance and exuberance, enjoying the fact... |
| Literary responses | Selima Hill | Deryn Rees-Jones
has said that all three sequences chart extreme experience with a dazzling excess. qtd. in Bloodaxe Books. http://www.bloodaxebooks.com/. |
| Textual Features | Carol Ann Duffy | Poet and critic Deryn Rees-Jones
sees in these poems the influence of surrealism and in the title a reference to Adrienne Rich
's Twenty-One Love Poems in A Dream of a Common Language, 1978. Rees-Jones, Deryn. Carol Ann Duffy. Northcote House, 1999. 5 |
| Textual Features | Carol Ann Duffy | Critic Deryn Rees-Jones
discerns widely varied influences on CAD
's work: mainstream English poets like Wordsworth
, Robert Browning
, T. S. Eliot
, Auden
, Dylan Thomas
, Larkin
, and Ted Hughes
... |
| Textual Production | Jo Shapcott | In 1999 JS
and Don Paterson
jointly edited Last Words: New Poetry for the New Century. In 2002 she and Linda Anderson
together edited Elizabeth Bishop: Poet of the Periphery, the first book... |
| Textual Production | Carol Rumens | 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... |
Timeline
Late October 2003: The magazine Mslexia invited UK publishers...
Women writers item
Late October 2003
The magazine Mslexia invited UK publishers to nominate women who had published their first poetry volume in the last ten years, in order to pick a Top Ten list.
Taylor, Debbie. “Class of 2004”. Mslexia, Vol.
20
, Jan. 2004, pp. 18-19. Gwyneth Lewis. http://www.gwynethlewis.com.
Texts
Rees-Jones, Deryn. Carol Ann Duffy. Northcote House, 1999.
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.
Padel, Ruth. “How and Why”. Contemporary Women’s Poetry, edited by Alison Mark and Deryn Rees-Jones, Macmillan Press; St Martin’s Press, 2000, pp. 12-17.
Rees-Jones, Deryn. “My Love and Other Animals”. Mslexia, Vol.
14
, p. 43. Rees-Jones, Deryn. “Newborn, by Kate Clanchy”. The Independent.
Rees-Jones, Deryn. “Writing ELIZABETH”. Elizabeth Bishop: Poet of the Periphery, edited by Linda Anderson and Jo Shapcott, Bloodaxe Books, 2002, pp. 42-62.