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.
Padel, Ruth. “How and Why”. Contemporary Women’s Poetry, edited by Alison Mark and Deryn Rees-Jones, Macmillan Press; St Martin’s Press, pp. 12-17.
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, pp. 42-62.
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
, p. 43.
43
Sometimes, she adds, the effect is of celebration of cannibalism meet[ing] Julie Andrews
singing...
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. 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.
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.
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.
