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 |
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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. |
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... |
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. 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, 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. Bloodaxe Books. |
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 | 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... |
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... |
Timeline
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.