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Title

Making for planet Alice : new women poets / edited by Maura Dooley.

Publication

Newcastle upon Tyne : Bloodaxe Books ; Chester Springs, PA : U.S. distributor, Dufour Editions, 1997.

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Details

Additional Authors

Dooley, Maura, 1957-

Description

173 pages : portraits; 22 cm

Subjects

• Women > Great Britain > Poetry
• English poetry > 20th century
• English poetry > Women authors
• Women > Ireland > Poetry

Note

• Distributor from label on t.p.

Contents

• Introduction / Maura Dooley / Moniza Alvi -- The Laughing Moon -- Houdini -- Presents from My Aunts in Pakistan -- The Bed / Eleanor Brown -- Bitcherel -- Jezebel to the Eunuchs -- Out -- Tragic Hero -- Sonnet XLIII -- What Song the Syrens Sang / Siobhan Campbell -- The Chairmaker -- Big John's Tears Fall to the River -- Legacy -- The Constant Welcome / Tessa Rose Chester -- Candle at Canterbury -- Buttons -- Running Hares / Kate Clanchy -- Recognition -- Foreign -- One Night When We Paused Half-way -- Deadman's Shoes -- For a Wedding / Julia Copus -- Miss Havisham's Letter -- Masaccio's Expulsion From Paradise -- Pulling the Ivy -- The Back Seat of My Mother's Car / Jane Duran -- The Mere Pleasure of Flying -- For the Woman Who Dressed Up to Listen to Gigli on the Radio -- Stillborn -- Mister Teller the Piano Teacher -- Time Zones / Gillian Ferguson -- The Swimming Pool Ghost -- Slugs -- In Hospital-land / Janet Fisher -- A Life -- Gooseflesh -- Camp --
• 'There are only so many words' -- It's February But -- Pearls / Linda France -- Mess With It -- ...What I Know Now -- The Gentleness of the Very Tall -- Meteorology -- New York Spring -- Chip City -- The Eater of Wives / Elizabeth Garrett -- Love's Parallel -- History Goes to Work -- The Womanhood -- Lost Property -- Mimesis -- Airborn -- Moules a la Mariniere / Lavinia Greenlaw -- A World Where News Travelled Slowly -- Boris Goes Fishing -- The Earliest Known Representation of a Storm in Western Art -- Millefiori -- Five O'Clock Opera -- Love from a Foreign City -- Iron Lung -- The Shape of Things -- New Year's Eve / Vona Groarke -- Shale -- Trousseau -- The Riverbed -- The History of My Father's House -- The Family Photograph / Sophie Hannah -- Where is Talcott Parsons Now? -- Postcard from a Travel Snob -- The End of Love -- Your Street Again -- Symptoms / Maggie Hannan -- Making Conversation / Tracey Herd -- Gia -- Pat Taffe and Arkle -- Big Girls --
• The Pink Rose Rings -- Missing -- The Exhibits -- On the Glittering Beaches / Jane Holland -- Pulse -- Spin-Cycle -- Three Tests for Darwin Duke -- Loco / Jackie Kay -- Even the Trees -- In My Country -- Crown and Country -- Virus[superscript 2] -- Maw Broon Visits a Therapist -- Pounding Rain / Mimi Khalvati -- On Reading Rumi -- Rubaiyat -- Blue Moon -- Stone of Patience -- Needlework / Gwyneth Lewis -- Pentecost -- Flyover Elegies -- Advice on Adultery -- The Hedge / Sarah Maguire -- The Divorce Referendum -- Spilt Milk -- The Invisible Mender -- Communion / Sinead Morrissey -- There was Fire in Vancouver -- My New Angels -- Thoughts in a Black Taxi -- After the Hurricane -- Hazel Goodwin Morrissey Brown -- To Look Out Once from High Windows / Alice Oswald -- Mountains -- The Pilchard-Curing Song -- The Melon Grower -- Wedding -- Ballad of a Shadow / Ruth Padel -- On the Line -- Tell Me About It -- Trial -- Yew Berries -- Angel --
• Scotch / Katherine Pierpoint -- In the Outhouse -- Combustion Engine -- Swim Right Up to Me -- Steeplejack / Deryn Rees-Jones -- Making for Planet Alice -- Service Wash -- I Know Exactly the Sort of Woman I'd Like to Fall in Love With -- And Please Do Not Presume -- It Will Not Do / Anne Rouse -- Memo to Auden -- Sacrificial Wolf -- A Birthday -- England Nil -- Spunk Talking -- Lilies of the Field -- The Narrows / Eva Salzman -- Homesteading -- Bargain with the Watchman -- Double Crossing -- Grandmother -- The English Earthquake / Ann Sansom -- Voice -- Cross Country -- From the moment I picked up your book -- Romance / Susan Wicks -- The Clever Daughter -- Moderato -- Buying Fish -- Protected Species -- Voice -- Rain Dance -- July.

ISBN

1852243988 (pbk.)

LCCN

97171758

OCLC

ocm36726986

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries