MONAZI ALVI ROSE ATFIELD Lecturer, Brunel University HELEN CARR Reader in English, Goldsmiths College, University of London U.A. FANTHORPEE Freelance Poet VICKI FEAVER Lecturer in English and Creative Writing, West Sussex Institute SELIMA HILL Poetry Library, South Bank Centre LINDA KINNAHAN Associate Professor of English, Duquesne University, Pennsylvania GWYNETH LEWIS Author MARION LOMAX Professor of Literature, St. Mary's, Strawberry Hill JANET MONTEFIORE Lecturer in English and Women's Studies, University of Kent MAGGIE O'SULLIVAN Author and editor RUTH PADEL Author JO SHAPCOTT Author and editor ANNE STEVENSON Author and editor HARRIET TARLO Lecturer at Bretton Hall College, University of Leeds CAROL WATTS Lecturer in English, Birkbeck College, University of London SUSAN WICKS Author JOANNE WINNING Lecturer in Twentieth-Century Literature, Birkbeck College, University of London CLAIR WILLS Lecturer in English, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London

Contemporary Women's Poetry is a unique resource for students, teachers, and anyone interest in contemporary poetry. It offers the opportunity for readers to engage with the work of important figures and issues in contemporary women's poetry from two perspectives: that of poets themselves, and that of literary criticism. The poets discuss their writing practice and the reasons for their poetic strategies, while the literary critics many of whom are also poets themselves contextualise, analyse and situate the work of a wide range of poetry of the most significant women poets of our time in Britain and North America.