Women’s Experimental Poetry in Britain 1970–2010 Body, Time and Locale
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David Kennedy is Senior Lecturer in English and Creative Writing at the University of Hull. His publications include 'Elegy' (Routledge, 2007) and 'The Ekphrastic Encounter in Contemporary British Poetry and Elsewhere' (Ashgate, 2012). Christine Kennedy is an artist, poet and independent scholar whose publications include co-authored articles on Denise Riley, Geraldine Monk and Elena Rivera.ReviewsA much-needed intervention in the area of modern poetry written by women in Britain. <br /><i>Times Literary Supplement</i><br />
'... this wonderful study is itself a fine manifestation of experimental and challenging discourse. I can't think of a better recommendation.'<br /><i>Stride Magazine</i><br />
'... badger your library to get hold of a copy; I promise that you will not regret reading this remarkably clear account of what has needed to be pulled together for far too long.'<br /><i>Tears in the Fence</i><br />
'In its forceful and intelligent guidance to – and advocacy of - some of the strongest poetry written in this country over the last half a century the book does nothing but good.'<br /><i>Tears on the Fence</i>, Issue 60
'What Kennedy and Kennedy have achieved here is a guide to an important yet neglected area of poetry and poetics. Any library intent on developing and maintaining a serious poetry collection needs to purchase this book and follow up the work of the poets discussed within. This book could revolutionise your library’s poetry collection.'<br /><i>Languages and literature Reference Reviews</i>, Volume 28, Number 4<br />
Reviews'Through this important book length study, Kennedy and Kennedy extend and update a valuable line of critical reading of women’s experimental poetry represented by Perloff, Linda Kinnahan and Clair Wills in the 1990s, and more recently by many of the critics who contributed to the Salt Companion to Maggie O’Sullivan.'<br /> Eltringham D. , Jenkins H. & Sheppard V., <i>Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry</i>