Poetry, Geography, Gender: Women Rewriting Contemporary Wales

By Alice Entwistle

Poetry, Geography, Gender explores how questions of place, identity, and creative practice intersect in the work of some of Wales's best-known contemporary poets, including Gillian Clarke, Gwyneth Lewis, Ruth Bidgood, and Sheenagh Pugh. Alice Entwistle illustrates how each writer's relationship with her complex cultural hinterland--its languages, history, and imaginative and political geography--is staged and tested in the kinds of poems that each poet writes, as well as what she writes about. In doing so, Entwistle proposes a new way of reading both poetry and place, arguing that the Wales represented, in and through their choices of form and language, is precisely the kind of dynamic, outward-looking, and culturally confident nation that theorists of devolution and the fin de si cle might have envisioned.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0708326692
• ISBN13: 9780708326695
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: University of Wales Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.4"