She was by no means unknown in her lifetime and if, as is often said, there is a pattern of being unrecognised among women poets she did not set it. She was on terms of friendship and mutual ...

The epistolary form is both intimate and expansive: It triangulates among the speaker, the subject (you) and a third, eavesdropping reader. This poem traverses an emotionally capacious friendship ...

A fine collection of essays, poems and personal narratives about ... of the American West and the bolstering power of friendship among women there. Indeed, sagebrush is a fitting symbol for ...

before noting the historically "nasty" women whom she admires. Before cheering and chanting ensues among the crowd, the poem ends with these powerful words: And our pussies ain't for grabbing.

As three new and very different books demonstrate, there are countless ways friendship can be parsed in order to fathom women and what ... familiar. Who among us has not uttered a platitude ...

This poem and film ... but written for women. It features 16 women poets, including Kerrie O’Brien, Alvy Carragher, Jessica Traynor, Rosita Sweetman and Clare Rose Thornton among others ...