Contemporary Women's Poetry and Urban Space

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vii

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Zoë Skoulding

      Pages 1-18

3. Location

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19

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   2. Address and Rhythm

      • Zoë Skoulding

      Pages 21-40

4. Vision, Power and Knowledge

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 41-41

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   2. Alice Notley: Disobedient Cities

      • Zoë Skoulding

      Pages 43-61

   3. Lisa Samuels: Unknown Cities

      • Zoë Skoulding

      Pages 63-83

5. Language and Locality

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 85-85

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   2. Geraldine Monk’s Restless Soil

      • Zoë Skoulding

      Pages 87-108

   3. Ágnes Lehóczky and the Palimpsestic City

      • Zoë Skoulding

      Pages 109-125

6. Polis

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 127-127

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   2. Erín Moure’s Irruptive Citizenship

      • Zoë Skoulding

      Pages 129-151

   3. Lisa Robertson: Prosody of the Polis

      • Zoë Skoulding

      Pages 153-173

7. Acts of Attention

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 175-175

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   2. Against Background: Reframings of the City

      • Zoë Skoulding

      Pages 177-194

   3. Performance and Absence in the Heterotopian City

      • Zoë Skoulding

      Pages 195-212

8. Conclusion

   1. Conclusion

      • Zoë Skoulding

      Pages 213-215

9. Back Matter

   Pages 217-234

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This book focuses on the role of the city, and its processes of mutual transformation, in poetry by experimental women writers. Readings of their work are placed in the context of theories of urban space, while new visions of the contemporary city and its global relationships are drawn from their innovations in language and form.

• Women's poetry
• Urban
• City
• Experimental
• Contemporary
• Poetry
• language
• Palimpsest
• poetry
• space
• transformation
• women

'Contemporary Women's Poetry and Urban Space is a fascinating read with an excellent balance of general theoretical insight and close textual analysis of some very challenging work. Skoulding draws together disparate practices and theories to weave together a picture of innovative, gendered poetry and poetics developed by a range of international poets in response to the city. Her wide reference helps her achieve a global, though not totalizing, perspective and it is instructive and inspiring to see these poets brought together within the covers of one book.' - Harriet Tarlo, Sheffield Hallam University, UK

Zoë Skoulding is Lecturer in the School of English at Bangor University, UK, and has been Editor of the international quarterly Poetry Wales since 2008. She is a poet whose recent collections of poems include Remains of a Future City (2008), long-listed for Wales Book of the Year 2009, and The Mirror Trade (2004)

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