Kicking Daffodils: Twentieth-Century Women Poets

By Vicki Bertram

This book calls for a new approach to poetry criticism. Eighteen brilliant essays offer challenging new theoretical approaches by examining the work of twentieth-century women poets. Poets covered include the most famous - Sylvia Plath, Elizabeth Bishop, Jackie Kay, Liz Lochhead, Grace Nichols, Eavan Boland - and the more neglected such as Una Marson, Jean Binta Breeze, Lorine Niedecker and Denise Riley. The essays are grouped into six sections: women poets and modernism; the politics of place; (post)colonial contexts; the body; radical poetics; and reconfigurations; and within these areas, war poetry, Caribbean, Irish and Scottish women's poetry, birth poetry and science poetry are also discussed.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 074860782X
• ISBN13: 9780748607822
• Release Date: May 1997
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 9.2" x 6.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher