Dugdale's fourth collection displays an increasingly urgent approach to historical and current geopolitics . It combines an open interest in the historical fate of women, particularly women-creators, and an interest in the fictional and dangerous sha...

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When war breaks out, a swarm of other industries quickly surrounds the battlefield; aid agencies, NGOs, international media corporations, mercenaries and private investors... all descend on the conflict like a second wave of invaders. Never was this...

"A Journey with Two Maps" begins with an anecdote: one afternoon, Eavan Boland saw one of her mother's paintings for sale in a gallery, signed by her famous teacher. It is the starting point for an exploration of concepts of art and womanhood, of wha...

"The poetry of Jean Follain" (1903-1971) is increasingly recognized, by French poets and critics and by his foreign admirers, as central to French poetry's change of course after the Surrealist period. The poet and novelist Henri Thomas wrote of Foll...

The poems in "Jilted City" inhabit in-between-places, when a border is being crossed, a word is slipping into another language, when memory is translating loss. From "Stations where the train doesn't stop" in "Blue Guide", following a train journey t...

Valentine Ackland is best known as the lover of poet Sylvia Townsend Warner, with whom she collaborated on "Whether a Dove or a Seagull" (1934). She was a distinguished poet in her own right, however, and enjoyed popular success during the 1930s. Con...

John Polidori (1795-1821) is a fascinating but always shadowy figure of Romanticism, an impetuous, sensitive writer of fierce talent. His encounter with Byron, Shelley and their circle has contributed both to his fame and notoriety on the one hand, a...

Early one morning in London – on Boxing Day – a minicab driver and his customer discover they have much in common. They are of a certain age, came to Britain at about the same time, in their teens, lived in the same street in Kilburn in the 1950s and...

"In Just Think of It", his first collection for over twenty years, Gavin Bantock proves that he has not grown tame. His many years in Japan have enriched his perspective when writing about life in Britain; he is also an acute observer of Japanese lif...