Edward Thomas

Many poems here feature women answering back to canonical male voices: Liz Lochhead to Donne , Jenny Joseph to W. S. Gilbert , U. A. Fanthorpe to Walt Whitman , Wendy Cope to A. E. Housman

In his preface, Newbolt admits that MEC often entered very deep shadows filled with strange shapes, that may move a timid soul or two to ask if it be safe to follow her, but adds...

This volume won a Welsh Arts Council poetry prize. The reviewer for the Irish Times likened GC to Edward Thomas .

The influence of Edward Thomas has been discerned in her war poetry. The title-poem, in six sections, sets out incongruously from a sound of [o]ut-flowing and imperative classical music heard in a poor district...