TY  - DATA
AU  - Varty, Anne,
TI  - Women, poetry and the voice of a nation
SN  - 9781399513487
U1  - 821.9109287 
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Edinburgh
PB  - Edinburgh University Press
KW  - Women poets, English
KW  - Women poets, Welsh
KW  - Women poets, Scottish
KW  - Women poets, Irish
KW  - Poets laureate
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Ireland
KW  - Women and literature
KW  - History
KW  - Nationalism and literature
N2  - The concurrent tenures of Gillian Clarke as National Poet of Wales, Carol Ann Duffy as UK Poet Laureate, Liz Lochhead as Scots Makar, and Paula Meehan as Ireland Professor of Poetry, defied historic rifts between women, poetry and nation. This book explores the extraordinary changes these women fought to achieve as each made her way from  marginalised 'poetess' of the 1970s to laureate at the heart of cultural establishment in the 21st century. It looks at how they revitalised these public offices, and explores their interventions in contemporary geopolitics and national self-understanding. It considers how they shaped their roles by engaging with poetic icons of the past, by linking poetry and education, and by joining poetry with politics
UR  - https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474489843.001.0001
ER  -