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020			_a9781399513487 _qebook _cNo price
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100			_aVarty, Anne, _eauthor. _923125
245			_aWomen, poetry and the voice of a nation / _cAnne Varty.
260			_aEdinburgh : _bEdinburgh University Press, _c2021.
300			_a1 online resource (242 pages).
520			_aThe 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.
650			_aWomen poets, English. _923126
650			_aWomen poets, Welsh. _923127
650			_aWomen poets, Scottish. _923128
650			_aWomen poets, Irish. _923129
650			_aPoets laureate _zGreat Britain. _923130
650			_aPoets laureate _zIreland. _923131
650			_aWomen and literature _zGreat Britain _xHistory. _923132
650			_aWomen and literature _zIreland _xHistory. _923133
650			_aNationalism and literature _zGreat Britain. _923134
650			_aNationalism and literature _zIreland. _923135
856			_uhttps://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474489843.001.0001
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