Women poets and "women's poetry"

Fleur Adcock, Gillian Clarke and Carol Rumens

Lyn Pykett

pp. 253-267

in: Gary Day, Brian Docherty (eds), British poetry from the 1950s to the 1990s, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 1997

Abstract

The under-representation of women among writers of poetry, and the under-valuation of those women who succeeded in both writing and publishing poetry, has been briskly analysed by Fleur Adcock in her introduction to The Faber Book of Twentieth Century Women's Poetry (1987). The editors, publishers and critics of poetry, she notes, were (and, on the whole, still are) men.