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Poetry Off the Page: Twentieth-Century British Women Poets in Performance
Poetry Off the Page TwentiethCentury British Women Poets in Performance Author:Laura Severin Examines the performed poetry of Charlotte Mew, Anna Wickham, Edith Sitwell, Stevie Smith, Liz Lochhead, and Jackie Kay as an alternative radical tradition of British poetry, developed to convey women's experience. Traces how these six women used a performative poetry to deal with difficulties regarding women's representation.