<p>A Poetry Book Society Special Commendation. This anthology charts the irrepressible growth and flowering of women's poetry in Britain and Ireland from the early 1970s to the 90s. Included are many distinctive female voices, no longer apologetic, but courageous, confident, and powerful voices of Eavan Boland, Eiléan Ni Chuilleanáin, Freda Downie, Carol Ann Duffy, U.A. Fanthorpe, Rita Ann Higgins, Kathleen Jamie, Elizabeth Jennings, Jenny Joseph, Jackie Kay, Medbh McGuckian, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, Ruth Padel, Ruth Pitter, Deborah Randall, Carol Rumens, E.J. Scovell, Anne Stevenson, and many others. ""Admirable in breadth and scope"" - Booklist.</p>

Sixty Women Poets

Literature & Fiction

Linda France

Poetry

Bloodaxe Books Ltd.

Linda France found the title for her new collection, You are Her, on a fading information board at Hadrian's Wall, not far from where she has lived for the past 30 years. Locating and disorientating at the same time, it set the co-ordinates for a body of work on boundaries and identity, damage and absence. Her wise and generous poems seek a place of oneness amidst inner and outer worlds, riven with dualities - the seeming paradoxes of self and society, language and experience, ideal and reality. At the heart of the book is a section looking at Nature and Cultivation through the life and work of Capability Brown, who was born in Northumberland in 1716. These poems consider some pressing questions: how much control do we have over our environment? How does our state of mind reflect the world around us? What, in the end , will endure? A horse-riding accident in 1995 fractured France's spine and cracked her pelvis. This injury, although on the surface healed, re-emerged in the form of flashbacks and chronic pain ten years later when several of her friends died in close succession. Many of the poems in You are Her chart the passage of grief and resolution, a cycle of re-orientation.

You are Her

Non Basic Stock Line

<p>The natural world its minutiae, its vastness, its beauties, mysteries and paradoxes and how the human individual is observes it, reacts to it, confronts it, yet is always part of it, are what makes this collection such absorbing and stimulating reading. Linda France observes and comments on plant, animal and insect life from every angle, sometimes from a deeply personal perspective, sometimes as an observer, sometimes in the voice of plants themselves. Family history, childhood memories and vivid descriptions of the wonders of nature from around the world are shot through with a scintillating lexicon of plant names so that every poem gleams with a unique light.</p>

Reading the Flowers

Arc Publications

The Iron Press Book of Tree Poetry

JACOB POLLEY

S.J. Litherland

Robin Moss

Kitty Fitzgerald

Peter Bennet

Debjani Chatterjee

Iron Press

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