Women's Work: Modern Women Poets Writing in English Muriel Rukeyser

Women's Work: Modern Women Poets Writing in English Muriel RukeyserThree years in the making, and with over 250 contributors, this generous selection of poetry by women with an emphasis on twentieth century poetry in English features poets from the USA, Canada, England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Australia, and New Zealand. In these 'Post Feminist' times, is there a need for such a book? Is the literary establishment still as dominated by men as it once was? Who gets to decide the canon? Eva Salzman opens Women's Work

Khaled Mattawa

For he purrs in thankfulness

His continuing fascination with technique is highlighted in the second half of the collection which includes a short section of visual pieces as well as the elaborate code of 'One of Our Presidents: Six Variations for Tony Conran'

fills his countryside pipe

On the eve of Occupy Wall Street

Notes from a Jazz Life

" - Angela Readman

Byron and British rapper Roots Manuva have in common

sonnets from Hesiod’s Calendar

giving voices to migrants around the globe

snoring nearby

The Frogmore Papers and Magma