Modern Scottish Women Poets (Canongate Classics) - Softcover

Dorothy McMillan; Michael And McMillan; Dorothy Byrne

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9781841955261: Modern Scottish Women Poets (Canongate Classics)

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ISBN 10: 1841955264 ISBN 13: 9781841955261

Publisher: Canongate Books, 2005

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Within these pages, an extensive introduction sets the scene for the growth of women writers from Scotland throughout the whole of the twentieth century. This invaluable collection traces the work of more than a hundred writers, some of whom have been most unfairly forgotten, over one of the most eventful periods in Scottish literary history. With over 200 poems - from Naomi Mitchison, Carol Ann Duffy, Dilys Rose, Kathleen Jamie, Meg Bateman, Jackie Kay, Liz Lochhead and many more - this collection celebrates the exceptional power and range of Scottish women poets.

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This anthology is everything it should be: eclectic ambitious, vivacious, unexpected, engrossing. And in being all these things, it's further proof of the exceptional power and range of Scottish writing. -- Andrew Motion, Poet Laureate The most comprehensive anthology of Scottish poetry by women ever published. * * Sunday Herald * *

About the Author:

Dorothy McMillan lectures in English Literature at Glasgow University. She is joint editor with Douglas Gifford of A History of Scottish Women's Writing (EUP). Her publications include an edited collection of non-fiction writing from 1700-1900, called The Scotswoman at Home and Abroad (ASLS). Most recently she co-edited an edition of Jane Austen's Emma for the Cambridge University Press (2005). She is past President of the Association for Scottish Literary Studies.

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