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A coat of ashes: A collection of poems, incorporating a metafictional narrative - and - Poetry, Daoism, physics and systems theory: a poetics: A set of critical essays

Sylvia Plath is widely recognized as one of the leading figures in twentieth-century Anglo-American literature and culture. Her work has constantly remained in print in the UK and US (and in numerous translated editions) since the appearance of her first collection in 1960. Plath's own writing has been supplemented over the decades by a wealth of critical and biographical material. The Cambridge Introduction to Sylvia Plath provides an authoritative and comprehensive guide to the poetry, prose and autobiographical writings of Sylvia Plath. It offers a critical overview of key readings, debates and issues from almost fifty years of Plath scholarship, draws attention to the historical, literary, national and gender contexts which frame her writing and presents informed and attentive readings of her own work. This accessibly written book will be of great use to students beginning their explorations of this important writer.

The Cambridge Introduction to Sylvia Plath

This text provides students with the basic descriptive knowledge they are required to master before moving on to more advanced study. The book is organized under thematic headings, which are thoroughly cross-referenced, enabling students and teachers to use the book as required--either as a course text or to help with individual aspects of language. Each section includes an introduction, worked examples, "in context" sections relating the topic to real text examples, suggestions for further reading and analysis and a summary

Discovering language: the structure of modern English

Verse Writing: a Practical Guide

In trying to find positives from Europe's golfing demise in the 2008 Ryder Cup, British journalist Owen Slot reported that ‘if there is one department in which Europeans remain superior here, it is in their mastery of football chants. Americans, it turns out, cannot even fathom the basic rhythms’. In this article, I will seek to challenge the assumptions behind such statements and investigate the role of the football chant as an exercise in historicity, fan diaspora, mediations of space and place, migrations across mono‐ and multicultural affiliations, big business against and/or in tandem with locality, differing (even competing) engagements of national and international fan associations, and the creation, appropriation, and reinterpretation of chants impacting on issues of personal, group and cultural representation and identity/identities. Moreover, in reviewing these areas, I will be presenting a multidimensional reading of the fan chant, over and above melodic analysis and socio‐cultural examinations...

'Shall we sing a song for you?': mediation, migration and identity in football chants and fandom.

Contemporary Women’s Poetry

This is the second edition of Deryn Rees-Jones' popular study on an important contemporary women poet and playwright. This study looks at Duffy's work from her early development and involvement with the Liverpool poets in the 1970s, through to her most recent collection. It concentrates on the way in which Duffy develops her use of the dramatic monologue and the love poem and traces her interest in surrealism and a tradition of European modernism. While acknowledging the importance of her popular appeal the book also makes a case for Duffy as a serious and important poet who engages with key issues of gender and identity in innovative and important ways. Deryn Rees-Jones places Duffy at the forefront of a change in poetry in Britain, and sees her as a writer who both heralds and opens up the way for those writing after her. This work is aimed at: students of literature in schools and in higher education; teachers of literature; scholars valuing the extensive and up-to-date bibliography; and sixth-form, academic and public libraries. Duffy is widely read and studied as a contemporary woman poet. It is written by a practising poet, herself influenced by Duffy's work. No other long individual study is currently available.

Carol Ann Duffy

In this pioneering study, Deryn Rees-Jones argues that the poetic traditions of the 20th century must be radically re-thought in light of the formal and thematic experimentation of three generations of women poets.

Consorting with Angels: Essays on modern women poets

Titles for Abbreviation Introduction Defending the Freedom of the Poet/Music Under the Skin A.Stevenson The How and the Why R.Padel Home Fires S.Wicks The Poet's Dilemma: A Murder Mystery G.Lewis God's Velvet Cushions S.Hill Hospitalspeak: The Neuro-psychiatric Unit U.A.Fanthorpe The Least International Shop in the World M.Alvi Confounding Geography J.Shapcott Riverrunning (Realisations) M.O'Sullivan 'Nothing that is not There and the Nothing that is' D.Rees-Jones Writing about Writing about Writing (about Writing) A.Mark Poetic Licence H.Carr 'Nothing to do with Eternity'? Adrienne Rich, Feminism and Poetry J.Montefiore Marking Time: Fanny Howe's Poetics of Transcendence C.Wills 'Body and Soul': the Power of Sharon Olds V.Feaver 'Beyond Interpellation? Affect, Embodiment and the Poetics of Denise Riley C.Watts Personal Politics in the Poetry of Carol Rumens and Denise Levertov M.Lomax 'The Stain of Absolute Possession': The Postcolonial in the Work of Eavan Boland R.Atfield 'Now I am Alien ': Immigration and the Discourse of Nation in the Poetry of Carol Ann Duffy L.Kinnahan 'Curious Rarities'? The Work of Kathleen James and Jackie Kay J.Winning 'A she even Smaller than Me': Gender Dreams of the Contemporary Avant-Garde H.Tarlo Index

Deryn Rees-Jones

Papers

Contemporary Women’s Poetry

Carol Ann Duffy

Consorting with Angels: Essays on modern women poets

Contemporary women's poetry : reading, writing, practice

Modern Women Poets