Table of Contents:
  • Defending the freedom of the poet/music under the skin / Anne Stevenson
  • How and why / Ruth Padel
  • Home fires / Susan Wicks
  • The poet's dilemma : a murder mystery / Gwyneth Lewis
  • God's velvet cushions / Selima Hill
  • Hospitalspeak : the neuro-psychiatric unit / U.A. Fanthorpe
  • The least international shop in the world / Moniza Alvi
  • Confounding geography / Jo Shapcott
  • riverrunning (realisations for Charles Bernstein / Maggie O'Sullivan
  • "Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is" / Deryn Rees-Jones
  • Writing about writing about writing (about writing) / Alison Mark
  • Poetic licence / Helen Carr
  • "Nothing to do with eternity"? : Adrienne Rich, feminism and poetry / Janet Montefiore
  • Marking time : Fanny Howe's poetics of transcendence / Clair Wills
  • Body and soul : the power of Sharon Olds / Vicki Feaver
  • Beyond interpellation? : affect, embodiment and the poetics of Denise Riley / Carol Watts
  • Personal politics in the poetry of Carol Rumens : a comparison with Denise Levertov / Marion Lomax
  • "The stain of absolute possession" : the postcolonial in the work of Eavan Boland / Rose Atfield
  • "Now I am alien" : immigration and the discourse of nation in the poetry of Carol Ann Duffy / Linda A. Kinnihan
  • Curious rarities? : the work of Kathleen Jamie and Jackie Kay / Joanne Winning
  • "A she even smaller than a me" : gender dramas of the contemporary avant-garde / Harriet Tarlo.