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• Roll Over, Gutenberg! Interview with Colleen Higgs

  November 22, 2009

  • COLLEEN HIGGS, author of Halfborn Woman1 talks to MOIRA RICHARDS about poetry, patriarchy and self-publishing   (This article first appeared in the ‘Contemporary Activism?' issue #60, 2004 of Agenda. ISBN: 9771013095000) When Colleen Higgs emailed me with an offer to send a copy of her about-to-be published book of poems that I might review it, I did what I always do before I undertake ...
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• Review of The Body of Poetry: Essays on Women, Form, and the Poetic Self By Annie Finch

  November 5, 2009

  • When I open a book and find that before I have read but one page, there are two words about which I need to consult a dictionary ... then I feel intimidated to read it, let alone to review it. But Ms Finch proved to be an excellent teacher. And once I had looked up the few literary terms that were strange to me, her collection of essays led me into absorbing discussions of aspects of poetry of ...
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• Review of View from an Escalator by Liesl Jobson

  October 23, 2009

  •  I expected to have an hour alone in a coffee shop today. So, as I left the house, I reached to my teetering tower of reproachfully neglected books-for-review and grabbed Liesl Jobson's 'View from an Escalator' to keep me company. Such good company it was! I think a good poet is one who has something to say and is able to say it well. If I were to try and make a formula for poetry it might ...
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